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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Fiji region


Earthquake location -18.0192S, -177.8679WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, Fiji region (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 571.71 km (355 miles). Id of earthquake: us70005qzd. Event ids that are associated: us70005qzd. Exact location of earthquake, -177.8679° West, -18.0192° South, depth 571.71 km. The temblor was detected at 12:38:50 / 12:38 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/10/19 / 2019-10-05 00:38:50 / October 5, 2019 @ 12:38 am.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: Fiji region. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8679° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.0192° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 571.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Fiji region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-05 00:38:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-05 01:40:55 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 3.698 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us70005qzd Id of event.
Event Code 70005qzd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005qzd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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