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

Posted by admin on September 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.6785S, 179.9419WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 151 kilometers (94 miles) from Lambasa in Fiji. Exact location of event, depth 636.16 km, 179.9419° East, -17.6785° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/09/18 / 2018-09-16 07:47:30 / September 16, 2018 @ 7:47 am. The temblor was reported at 19:47:30 / 7:47 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 636.16 km (395 miles). Event id: us2000hfdu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hfdu.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Levuka (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levuka (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 151 km SSE of Lambasa, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.9419° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6785° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 636.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 151km SSE 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 2018-09-16 07:47:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-16 08:12:13 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 1.801 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us2000hfdu Id of event.
Event Code 2000hfdu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hfdu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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