A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 107 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (66 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/16 / 2016-09-24 22:18:37 / September 24, 2016 @ 10:18 pm. Event id: us10006uzv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006uzv. Exact location, longitude -178.2632° West, latitude -19.7704° South, depth = 600.67 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:18:37 / 10:18 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 600.67 km (373 miles) below the earth’s surface.
In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 107 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.
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