A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 278 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (173 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 20/10/18 / 2018-10-20 09:22:24 / October 20, 2018 @ 9:22 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000hex7. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hex7. The temblor was picked up at 21:22:24 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 580.74 km (361 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.1449 West, latitude -18.1888 South, depth = 580.74 km.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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