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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Suva in Fiji

Posted by admin on July 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.6958S, 179.5254WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 129 kilometers (80 miles) from Suva in Fiji. Exact location of event, depth 579.68 km, 179.5254° East, -18.6958° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 579.68 km (360 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us700046sy. Unique identifier: us700046sy. The temblor was picked up at 17:31:19 / 5:31 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/06/19 / 2019-06-22 05:31:19 / June 22, 2019 @ 5:31 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levuka (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Levuka (c. 8 400 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 129 km ESE of Suva, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.5254° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.6958° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 579.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 129km ESE of Suva, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-22 05:31:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 10:56:24 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 1.689 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 135 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 us700046sy Id of event.
Event Code 700046sy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700046sy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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