Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Fiji region


Earthquake location -21.8189S, -178.0906WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Fiji region (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -178.0906 West, latitude -21.8189 South, depth = 644.9 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d2dr. Id of event: us7000d2dr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 644.9 km (401 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/01/21 / 2021-01-14 03:12:06 / January 14, 2021 @ 3:12 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:12:06 / 3:12 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-four 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.

Did you feel it?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: Fiji region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2021 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.0906° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.8189° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 644.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Fiji region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-14 03:12:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-28 02:12:02 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 284 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 5.441 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us7000d2dr Id of event.
Event Code 7000d2dr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d2dr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply