A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, South of the Fiji Islands (0 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 518.15 km (322 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/09/17 / 2017-09-07 00:24:32 / September 7, 2017 @ 12:24 am. Exact location of event, longitude 179.8329 East, latitude -24.8042 South, depth = 518.15 km. Unique identifier: us2000ah9q. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ah9q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:24:32 / 12:24 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: South of the Fiji Islands.
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