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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near the Fiji Islands


Earthquake location -25.192S, 179.9105WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, south of the Fiji Islands (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 179.9105° East, -25.192° South, depth 512.241 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nqmb. Unique identifier: us7000nqmb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/11/24 / 2024-11-08 16:23:58 / November 8, 2024 @ 4:23 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 16:23:58 / 4:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 512.241 km (318 miles).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: south of the Fiji Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.9105° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -25.192° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 512.241 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place south of the Fiji Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-08 16:23:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-08 16:37:44 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.472 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us7000nqmb Id of event.
Event Code 7000nqmb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nqmb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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