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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Lambasa in Fiji

Posted by admin on December 16, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.5028S, -178.6123WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 244 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (152 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:13:44 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/12/17 / 2017-12-16 06:13:44 / December 16, 2017 @ 6:13 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 529.93 km (329 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c56g. Unique identifier: us2000c56g. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.6123 West, latitude -17.5028 South, depth = 529.93 km.

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

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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. 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: 244 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.6123° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.5028° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 529.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 244km ESE 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 2017-12-16 06:13:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-16 06:35:23 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 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 7.488 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us2000c56g Id of event.
Event Code 2000c56g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c56g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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