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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.6694S, -178.9097WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 228 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji (142 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 544.79 km (339 miles). Exact location, longitude -178.9097° West, latitude -17.6694° South, depth = 544.79 km. Unique identifier: us1000g8wx. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000g8wx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 10:25:54 / 10:25 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/18 / 2018-08-08 22:25:54 / August 8, 2018 @ 10:25 pm.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 228 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.9097° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6694° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 544.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 228km 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 2018-08-08 22:25:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-24 23:18:57 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 259 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 2.896 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us1000g8wx Id of event.
Event Code 1000g8wx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g8wx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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