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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.9535S, -178.5814WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 275 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji (171 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005s25. Id of event: us70005s25. Exact location of earthquake, -178.5814° West, -17.9535° South, depth 586.31 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/09/19 / 2019-09-27 12:35:48 / September 27, 2019 @ 12:35 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 586.31 km (364 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 00:35:48 / 12:35 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 275 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.5814° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9535° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 586.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 275km SE 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 2019-09-27 12:35:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-25 13:02:19 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 3.212 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us70005s25 Id of event.
Event Code 70005s25 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005s25, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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