A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 272 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (169 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 03:41:08 / August 19, 2018 @ 3:41 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 599.39 km (372 miles). Unique identifier: us1000gimb. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000gimb. Exact location of event, depth 599.39 km, -178.0305° West, -18.2688° South. The temblor was picked up at 15:41:08 / 3:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-two, in the last 10 days eighty-four, in the past 30 days eighty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 272 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.
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