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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.6376S, -178.2631WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 284 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (176 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/04/20 / 2020-04-02 14:39:41 / April 2, 2020 @ 2:39 pm. Id of earthquake: us70008ri9. Event ids that are associated: us70008ri9. Exact location of event, longitude -178.2631 West, latitude -17.6376 South, depth = 569.55 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:39:41 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter). 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 569.55 km (354 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 six, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 284 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.2631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6376° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 569.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 284km 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 2020-04-02 14:39:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-20 16:28:50 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 259 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 3.513 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 256 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 us70008ri9 Id of event.
Event Code 70008ri9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008ri9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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