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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Levuka in Fiji


Earthquake location -18.1711S, -178.2599WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 256 km E of Levuka, Fiji (159 miles) on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us6000dg98. Event ids that are associated: us6000dg98. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -178.2599° West, -18.1711° South, depth 535.95 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 535.95 km (333 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/02/21 / 2021-02-03 09:26:15 / February 3, 2021 @ 9:26 am. The temblor was detected at 09:26:15 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 256 km E of Levuka, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.2599° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.1711° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 535.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 256 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 2021-02-03 09:26:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-26 06:42:54 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 246 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 3.535 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us6000dg98 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dg98 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dg98, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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