There was a total of 2043 seismic activity events recorded during the ending of 2020-2021 financial year, according to the Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources annual report 2020-2021 tabled in Parliament this week.
The ministry stated a total of 272 local events were recorded in the Fiji region during that financial year.
“Most event magnitudes were minor to strong size with shallow to deep depth source location that did not pose any tsunami threat to the region,” the ministry reported.
“A total of 1806 regional events occurred during the year ending. Most were minor to major size magnitudes with shallow to deep depth source location.”
The ministry stated most of the local and regional events that occurred were of small to medium size category.
“The depth of the earthquake source location ranges from shallow to deep depth and there was no threat to the region and especially to our local waters.
“These seismic activities are the result of the major ongoing movement of plate boundaries and seismic movements along the Tonga and Vanuatu subduction zones as well as the Fiji Micro plate.”
