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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near the Fiji Islands

Posted by admin on April 12, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -25.3929S, -179.9627WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, south of the Fiji Islands (0 miles). Unique identifier: us6000q3qw. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000q3qw. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/03/25 / 2025-03-25 06:23:16 / March 25, 2025 @ 6:23 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:23:16 / 6:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.9627 West, latitude -25.3929 South, depth = 494.504 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 494.504 km (307 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: south of the Fiji Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.9627° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -25.3929° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 494.504 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 2025-03-25 06:23:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-12 14:17:42 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 284 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.831 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 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 us6000q3qw Id of event.
Event Code 6000q3qw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q3qw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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