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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Levuka in Fiji

Posted by admin on February 9, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.2055S, -177.9879WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 285 km E of Levuka, Fiji (177 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 573.647 km (356 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.9879 West, latitude -18.2055 South, depth = 573.647 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:52:19 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/01/25 / 2025-01-18 22:52:19 / January 18, 2025 @ 10:52 pm UTC/GMT. 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: us7000p9mp. Unique identifier: us7000p9mp.

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 nine, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.9879° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.2055° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 573.647 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 285 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 2025-01-18 22:52:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-09 05:22:51 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 271 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.053 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us7000p9mp Id of event.
Event Code 7000p9mp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000p9mp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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