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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 247 km E of Levuka, Fiji

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Earthquake location -17.915S, -178.3532WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 247 km E of Levuka, Fiji (153 miles) on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000c6q7. Id of event: us7000c6q7. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.3532 West, latitude -17.915 South, depth = 526.66 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/20 / 2020-10-28 11:21:15 / October 28, 2020 @ 11:21 am UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:21:15 / 11:21 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 526.66 km (327 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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: 247 km E of Levuka, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.3532° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.915° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 526.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 247 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 2020-10-28 11:21:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-28 11:41:26 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 312 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 3.427 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us7000c6q7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000c6q7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c6q7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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