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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.6227S, -178.7657WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 238 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji (148 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us200065lp. Ids that are associated to the event: us200065lp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 536.53 km (333 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:29:38 / 10:29 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/06/16 / 2016-06-20 22:29:38 / June 20, 2016 @ 10:29 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -178.7657 West, latitude -17.6227 South, depth = 536.53 km.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 238 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.7657° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6227° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 536.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 238km SE of Lambasa, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-20 22:29:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-20 23:16:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.035 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200065lp Id of event.
Event Code 200065lp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065lp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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