A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 213 km SSE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (132 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/03/18 / 2018-03-07 09:10:05 / March 7, 2018 @ 9:10 am. Exact location, longitude -177.9593° West, latitude -22.4471° South, depth = 360.28 km. Id of earthquake: us1000d4t5. Event ids that are associated: us1000d4t5. The temblor was reported at 21:10:05 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 360.28 km (224 miles).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 213 km SSE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.
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