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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Lambasa in Fiji

Posted by admin on September 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.6297S, 179.8408WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 142 kilometers (88 miles) from Lambasa in Fiji on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 607.97 km (378 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 179.8408 East, latitude -17.6297 South, depth = 607.97 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/09/19 / 2019-09-30 13:30:10 / September 30, 2019 @ 1:30 pm. Event id: us70005nv5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005nv5. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:30:10 / 1:30 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levuka (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Levuka (c. 8 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 142 km SSE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.8408° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6297° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 607.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 142km SSE 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 2019-09-30 13:30:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-30 13:57:05 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 340 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 1.708 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us70005nv5 Id of event.
Event Code 70005nv5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005nv5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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