A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 229 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (142 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/11/18 / 2018-11-16 18:25:17 / November 16, 2018 @ 6:25 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -177.8098° West, latitude -18.7588° South, depth = 485.46 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hvrw. Id of event: us1000hvrw. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 485.46 km (302 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:25:17 / 6:25 am (local time epicenter).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and two 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 229 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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