Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Levuka in Fiji

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 219 km E of Levuka, Fiji (136 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000ndh8. Event ids that are associated: us7000ndh8. The epicenter was at a depth of 617.128 km (383 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.609 West, latitude -18.0215 South, depth = 617.128 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/09/24 / 2024-09-13 09:48:46 / September 13, 2024 @ 9:48 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 09:48:46 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 219 km E of Levuka, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-178.609° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.0215° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	617.128 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	219 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	2024-09-13 09:48:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-15 09:41:23	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	298	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.191	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	us7000ndh8	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ndh8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ndh8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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