A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, Fiji region (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 517.76 km, -178.2803° West, -17.9538° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h3vb. Id of event: us1000h3vb. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 517.76 km (322 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:48:04 / 2:48 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/09/18 / 2018-09-24 02:48:04 / September 24, 2018 @ 2:48 am UTC/GMT. 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days eighty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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: Fiji region.
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