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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 112 km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji

Posted by admin on May 28, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.0878S, -177.8035WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 112 km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (70 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -177.8035° West, -20.0878° South, depth 515.51 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 19/05/19 / 2019-05-19 14:16:37 / May 19, 2019 @ 2:16 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 515.51 km (320 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us60003t4i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60003t4i. The temblor was picked up at 02:16:37 / 2:16 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. 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: 112 km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8035° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.0878° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 515.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km ENE 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 2019-05-19 14:16:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-28 19:18:40 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 271 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 4.562 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us60003t4i Id of event.
Event Code 60003t4i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003t4i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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