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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 267 km E of Levuka, Fiji


Earthquake location -18.0231S, -178.1562WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 267 km E of Levuka, Fiji (166 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, -178.1562° West, -18.0231° South, depth 570.24 km. Id of earthquake: us7000p0qg. Event ids that are associated: us7000p0qg. Global time and date of event 22/12/24 / 2024-12-22 11:03:22 / December 22, 2024 @ 11:03 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 11:03:22 / 11:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 570.24 km (354 miles). 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 267 km E of Levuka, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.1562° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.0231° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 570.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 267 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 2024-12-22 11:03:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-22 11:21:36 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 326 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.819 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us7000p0qg Id of event.
Event Code 7000p0qg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000p0qg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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