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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -19.9308S, -178.0464WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 104 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (65 miles) on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/16 / 2016-09-24 22:04:48 / September 24, 2016 @ 10:04 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 611.19 km (380 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006v06. Unique identifier: us10006v06. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:04:48 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -178.0464 West, latitude -19.9308 South, depth = 611.19 km.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 104 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.0464° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.9308° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 611.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104km NE 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 2016-09-24 22:04:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-21 03:00:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 271 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 4.286 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us10006v06 Id of event.
Event Code 10006v06 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006v06, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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