A magnitude 6 earthquake has shaken the waters south of Fiji, in the South Pacific, on Monday, without any damage being reported or a tsunami alert being activated.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), which records seismic activity around the world, located the tremor at a depth of 553 kilometers and about 670 kilometers south of Suva, the Fijian capital.

This region regularly suffers earthquakes of magnitude greater than five, which generally do not cause material damage due to the distance from inhabited areas.

The North Lau Basin, located between Fiji, Samoa and Tonga in the South Pacific, has dozens of active submarine volcanoes located between 1,000 and 1,500 meters deep.

This area is also part of the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, one of the areas on the planet with the greatest seismic activity and where tremors of different intensity occur daily.