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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Levuka in Fiji


Earthquake location -18.0351S, -178.1988WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 263 km E of Levuka, Fiji (163 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000c9y7. Event ids that are associated: us6000c9y7. The temblor was picked up at 06:52:21 / 6:52 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 523.25 km (325 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.1988 West, latitude -18.0351 South, depth = 523.25 km. Global time and date of event 14/10/20 / 2020-10-14 06:52:21 / October 14, 2020 @ 6:52 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 263 km E of Levuka, 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 -178.1988° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.0351° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 523.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 263 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 2020-10-14 06:52:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-21 06:15:13 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 3.581 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us6000c9y7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c9y7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c9y7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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