A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 142 km W of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna (88 miles). Global time and date of event 04/03/18 / 2018-03-04 00:28:25 / March 4, 2018 @ 12:28 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000dbwu. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dbwu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:28:25 / 12:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -179.4916 West, latitude -14.3271 South, depth = 10 km.
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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