Earthquakes today

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

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Fiji region


Earthquake location -20.6194S, -178.159WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, Fiji region (0 miles). Event id: us7000mr05. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mr05. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/06/24 / 2024-06-02 22:16:28 / June 2, 2024 @ 10:16 pm. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:16:28 / 10:16 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 531.608 km (330 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -178.159 West, latitude -20.6194 South, depth = 531.608 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Fiji region.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.159° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.6194° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 531.608 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 2024-06-02 22:16:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-13 05:06:23 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us7000mr05 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mr05 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mr05, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply