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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 289 km E of Levuka, Fiji


Earthquake location -17.9416S, -177.9564WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 289 km E of Levuka, Fiji (180 miles) on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 588.832 km (366 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.9564 West, latitude -17.9416 South, depth = 588.832 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nugq. Id of event: us7000nugq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 01:22:01 / 1:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/11/24 / 2024-11-10 01:22:01 / November 10, 2024 @ 1:22 am UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 289 km E of Levuka, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.9564° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9416° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 588.832 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 289 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 2024-11-10 01:22:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-28 03:15:21 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.941 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us7000nugq Id of event.
Event Code 7000nugq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nugq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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