A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 142 kilometers (88 miles) from Suva in Fiji. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 599.19 km, 179.7821° East, -18.2682° South. The temblor was detected at 04:15:09 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000hgly. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hgly. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 599.19 km (372 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/09/18 / 2018-09-06 16:15:09 / September 6, 2018 @ 4:15 pm.
Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Levuka (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levuka (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 142 km E of Suva, Fiji.
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