(Express) – The epicenter was located 134 miles south of Levuka, 260 km 162 miles southeast of Labasa and 192 miles southeast of Suva. There are about 6,000 people living within 62 miles. The quake was followed by a magnitude 4.8 at 8:23UTC at a depth of 354.3 miles. No tsunami warnings have been issued following the quake and no damage was reported.
Fiji lies in a complex tectonic setting along the boundary between the Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate. Fiji sits on the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’, a 25,000 mile-long area in which some 90 percent of the world’s earthquakes occur. The belt runs from New Zealand, through South East Asia and Japan and along the entire western coastline of the Americas. This comes after a 4.5 magnitude quake hit Fiji last Tuesday. READ MORE
