Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 267 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 267 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (166 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -177.763 West, latitude -18.4072 South, depth = 609.11 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 19:41:56 / December 16, 2019 @ 7:41 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 07:41:56 / 7:41 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 609.11 km (378 miles). Id of earthquake: us70006tt7. Event ids that are associated: us70006tt7.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 267 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.763° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.4072° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	609.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	267km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-16 19:41:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-06 19:40:19	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	284	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	4.034	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	us70006tt7	Id of event.
Event Code	70006tt7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006tt7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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