Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 228 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji


Earthquake location -17.2692S, -178.6649WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 228 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (142 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 510.67 km (317 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/12/18 / 2018-12-03 16:05:37 / December 3, 2018 @ 4:05 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000i48r. Event ids that are associated: us1000i48r. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 04:05:37 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.6649 West, latitude -17.2692 South, depth = 510.67 km.

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

How would you describe the shaking?

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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 228 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.6649° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.2692° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 510.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 228km 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 2018-12-03 16:05:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-10 15:53:58 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 3.167 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us1000i48r Id of event.
Event Code 1000i48r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000i48r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply