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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 264 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji

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Earthquake location -18.3641S, -177.9637WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 264 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (164 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.9637 West, latitude -18.3641 South, depth = 616.34 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/19 / 2019-04-24 09:04:58 / April 24, 2019 @ 9:04 am. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:04:58 / 9:04 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70003ga8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003ga8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 616.34 km (383 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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: 264 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.9637° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.3641° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 616.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 264km 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 2019-04-24 09:04:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-23 04:57:42 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 3.839 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us70003ga8 Id of event.
Event Code 70003ga8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ga8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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