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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Levuka in Fiji

Posted by admin on August 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.4821S, 179.8626WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Levuka in Fiji. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 585.865 km (364 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:01:06 / 10:01 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000n7aa. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n7aa. Exact location of event, longitude 179.8626 East, latitude -17.4821 South, depth = 585.865 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/08/24 / 2024-08-15 22:01:06 / August 15, 2024 @ 10:01 pm.

The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Levuka (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levuka (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 NE of Levuka, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.8626° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.4821° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 585.865 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 km NE 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 2024-08-15 22:01:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-16 02:24:35 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.746 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 243 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 us7000n7aa Id of event.
Event Code 7000n7aa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n7aa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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