Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 286 km E of Levuka, Fiji

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 286 km E of Levuka, Fiji (178 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:34:37 / 6:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 616.465 km (383 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/09/24 / 2024-09-14 06:34:37 / September 14, 2024 @ 6:34 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ndre. Id of event: us7000ndre. Exact location of event, longitude -177.9779 West, latitude -18.229 South, depth = 616.465 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 286 km E of Levuka, Fiji.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.9779° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.229° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	616.465 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	286 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	2024-09-14 06:34:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-14 06:59:11	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	58	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.901	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us7000ndre	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ndre	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ndre,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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