A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes South of the Fiji Islands (0 miles) on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 23/01/19 / 2019-01-23 11:34:30 / January 23, 2019 @ 11:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.6869 West, latitude -23.5905 South, depth = 535.63 km. Unique identifier: us2000j7sm. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j7sm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 535.63 km (333 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:34:30 / 11:34 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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