No Tsunami Threat to Hawaiʻi After Large Fiji Earthquake

Background image courtesy USGS.

There is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi after an 8.2 (preliminary magnitude 7.9) earthquake reported in the Fiji Region at around 2:20 p.m. HST on Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

The PTWC says that based on all available data, a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected and there is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi.

The USGS reports that the quake occurred at a depth of 559.6 km and was located: 167.1 mi E of Levuka, Fiji; 203.1 mi SE of Labasa, Fiji; 224.5 mi E of Suva, Fiji; 278.8 mi E of Ba, Fiji; and 280.4 mi NW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga.