Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near the Fiji Islands

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes South of the Fiji Islands (0 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 05:31:36 / 5:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -179.7488° West, latitude -23.9097° South, depth = 542.55 km. Id of earthquake: us70003xq4. Event ids that are associated: us70003xq4. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/06/19 / 2019-06-02 17:31:36 / June 2, 2019 @ 5:31 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 542.55 km (337 miles). 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and two 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: South of the Fiji Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-179.7488° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-23.9097° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	542.55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	South of the Fiji Islands	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-06-02 17:31:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-30 16:37:26	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	312	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	17.961	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	us70003xq4	Id of event.
Event Code	70003xq4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003xq4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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