MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th August, 2018) No tsunami threat was declared in the Pacific region despite the powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the Fiji Islands on Sunday, the US Tsunami Warning Center said in a statement.
Earlier in the day, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said that the 8.2-magnitude earthquake was registered at 00:19 GMT 281 kilometers (about 175 miles) northeast of the Ndoi Island at the depth of 560 kilometers.
"Based on all available data ... there is no tsunami threat because the earthquake is located too deep inside the earth," the statement said.
The Fiji Islands are located in a seismically active zone known as the Ring of Fire and regularly suffer from powerful earthquakes.
