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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 84 km ESE of Ndoi Island, Fiji


Earthquake location -20.8798S, -177.9262WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 84 km ESE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (52 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/07/16 / 2016-07-16 20:04:58 / July 16, 2016 @ 8:04 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.9262 West, latitude -20.8798 South, depth = 504.51 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:04:58 / 8:04 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006gf9. Id of event: us20006gf9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 504.51 km (313 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 84 km ESE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.9262° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.8798° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 504.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km ESE of Ndoi Island, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-16 20:04:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-27 02:18:01 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 284 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 4.913 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 231 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 us20006gf9 Id of event.
Event Code 20006gf9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006gf9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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