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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Levuka in Fiji

Posted by admin on June 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.1127S, -177.8419WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 300 km E of Levuka, Fiji (186 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000a1nv. Unique identifier: us6000a1nv. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/05/20 / 2020-05-21 16:03:07 / May 21, 2020 @ 4:03 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 16:03:07 / 4:03 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 577.09 km (359 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 577.09 km, -177.8419° West, -18.1127° South.

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 300 km E of Levuka, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8419° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.1127° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 577.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 300 km E of Levuka, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-21 16:03:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-18 14:24:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 3.925 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us6000a1nv Id of event.
Event Code 6000a1nv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a1nv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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