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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Levuka in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.9663S, -178.562WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 224 km E of Levuka, Fiji (139 miles) on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -178.562 West, latitude -17.9663 South, depth = 569.439 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:09:39 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 569.439 km (354 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/10/24 / 2024-10-21 06:09:39 / October 21, 2024 @ 6:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nzzw. Unique identifier: us6000nzzw.

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 fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 224 km E of Levuka, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.562° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9663° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 569.439 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 224 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 2024-10-21 06:09:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-22 07:58:51 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 312 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.469 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us6000nzzw Id of event.
Event Code 6000nzzw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nzzw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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