Suva, Fiji

A powerful earthquake struck deep under the South Pacific near Fiji today, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said it did not expect the quake, which struck 360 miles below the earth’s surface, to trigger a damaging Pacific-wide tsunami.

The 7.1-magnitude temblor hit  about 60 miles north-northeast of the remote Fijian island of Ndoi, the geological survey said.

Lasarusa Veutibau, a seismologist at Fiji’s Mines and Resources Department, said the quake was too deep to have been felt anywhere in the Fiji islands.