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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -18.1686S, -177.9748WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 285 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (177 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/11/18 / 2018-11-10 13:30:08 / November 10, 2018 @ 1:30 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 01:30:08 / 1:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -177.9748 West, latitude -18.1686 South, depth = 582.44 km. Id of earthquake: us1000hstx. Event ids that are associated: us1000hstx. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 582.44 km (362 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 285 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.9748° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.1686° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 582.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 285km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-10 13:30:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-09 17:16:39 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 284 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 3.804 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us1000hstx Id of event.
Event Code 1000hstx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hstx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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