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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.3119S, -178.1037WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 285 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (177 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 06:52:20 / 6:52 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000h7hz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h7hz. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 553.55 km (344 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.1037 West, latitude -17.3119 South, depth = 553.55 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/09/18 / 2018-09-29 18:52:20 / September 29, 2018 @ 6:52 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days seventy-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 285 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.1037° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.3119° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 553.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 285km 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 2018-09-29 18:52:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-23 19:30:08 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 3.692 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us1000h7hz Id of event.
Event Code 1000h7hz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h7hz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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