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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 86 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji


Earthquake location -17.7187S, -179.954WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 86 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji (53 miles) on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 03:20:58 / August 7, 2024 @ 3:20 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 606.155 km (377 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nigu. Unique identifier: us6000nigu. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:20:58 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.954 West, latitude -17.7187 South, depth = 606.155 km.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 86 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.954° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.7187° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 606.155 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 km ENE 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 2024-08-07 03:20:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-07 03:30:15 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 369 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.9 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us6000nigu Id of event.
Event Code 6000nigu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nigu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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