Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Levuka in Fiji

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 238 km E of Levuka, Fiji (148 miles) on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/06/20 / 2020-06-21 23:20:51 / June 21, 2020 @ 11:20 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.4499 West, latitude -17.8003 South, depth = 539.91 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:20:51 / 11:20 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ac7n. Unique identifier: us7000ac7n. The epicenter was at a depth of 539.91 km (335 miles).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 238 km E of Levuka, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-178.4499° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.8003° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	539.91 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	238 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	2020-06-21 23:20:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-27 04:36:27	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	3.332	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	183	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	us7000ac7n	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ac7n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ac7n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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