<strong>Sydney:</strong> A strong 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Fiji today, the US Geological Survey said, but it was too deep to generate a tsunami and there were no immediate reports of damage. The tremor hit at 12:19 pm (0019 GMT) local time 361 kilometres (224 miles) east of the Pacific nation's capital Suva, at a depth of 559 kilometres, the US seismologists said. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">UPDATE: Fiji <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/earthquake?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#earthquake</a> magnitude revised to 8.2 and small, non-dangerous <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tsunami?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tsunami</a> waves have been observed. While no hazard is expected for any coastline, but please be observant and exercise normal caution.<a href="https://t.co/Af5aJJKIIB">https://t.co/Af5aJJKIIB</a></p> — NWS PTWC (@NWS_PTWC) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWS_PTWC/status/1030984757310455808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2018</a></blockquote> The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was "no tsunami threat because the earthquake is located too deep inside the Earth". The quake occurred in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a region of frequent seismic activity due to collisions between continental plates.
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