A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 270 km N of Ndoi Island, Fiji (168 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000d9nk. Unique identifier: us1000d9nk. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 518.23 km (322 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -178.3483° West, -18.2286° South, depth 518.23 km. Global time and date of event 20/03/18 / 2018-03-20 18:38:00 / March 20, 2018 @ 6:38 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 06:38:00 / 6:38 am (local time epicenter).
In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 270 km N of Ndoi Island, Fiji.
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