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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Levuka in Fiji


Earthquake location -18.0662S, -178.4799WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 233 km E of Levuka, Fiji (145 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 586.91 km (365 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.4799 West, latitude -18.0662 South, depth = 586.91 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/08/20 / 2020-08-10 20:57:01 / August 10, 2020 @ 8:57 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000bc98. Unique identifier: us6000bc98. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:57:01 / 8:57 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 233 km E of Levuka, Fiji. This data 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 -178.4799° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.0662° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 586.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 233 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 2020-08-10 20:57:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-12 13:54:31 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 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 3.316 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us6000bc98 Id of event.
Event Code 6000bc98 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bc98, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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