Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 113 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 113 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (70 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/07/19 / 2019-07-27 22:00:43 / July 27, 2019 @ 10:00 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 524.06 km (326 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:00:43 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60004wla. Event ids that are associated: us60004wla. Exact location of earthquake, -179.5988° West, -16.7061° South, depth 524.06 km.

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 two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 113 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-179.5988° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-16.7061° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	524.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	113km 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	2019-07-27 22:00:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-27 22:53:03	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	326	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	2.47	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	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	us60004wla	Id of event.
Event Code	60004wla	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60004wla,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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