A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 160 km SSW of Suva, Fiji (99 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/08/15 / 2015-08-04 03:16:09 / August 4, 2015 @ 3:16 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002xsm. Unique identifier: us10002xsm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 15:16:09 / 3:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 177.825 East, latitude -19.4706 South, depth = 35 km.
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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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