Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Lautoka in Fiji

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Lautoka in Fiji on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/11/16 / 2016-11-10 07:38:56 / November 10, 2016 @ 7:38 am. Exact location of event, longitude 176.7981 East, latitude -17.0896 South, depth = 39.87 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us100078t4. Unique identifier: us100078t4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.87 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:38:56 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lautoka (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Lautoka (c. 52 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 91 km NW of Lautoka, Fiji.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	176.7981° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.0896° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	91km NW of Lautoka, Fiji	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-10 07:38:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-02 10:38:10	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	340	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	1.363	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us100078t4	Id of event.
Event Code	100078t4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100078t4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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