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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.3249S, -178.3595WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 260 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (162 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -178.3595 West, latitude -17.3249 South, depth = 454.79 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 454.79 km (283 miles). The temblor was reported at 14:11:16 / 2:11 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/06/19 / 2019-06-28 02:11:16 / June 28, 2019 @ 2:11 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70004evl. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004evl.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 260 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.3595° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.3249° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 454.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 260km 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 2019-06-28 02:11:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-10 01:18:10 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 24.631 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us70004evl Id of event.
Event Code 70004evl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004evl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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