M5.3 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Thu, Jul 26, 2007, 9:43 AM GMT+13 (20:43 UTC), 446 km (277 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.6 Fiji region. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.3 (Mwc, centroid moment), moderate
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2007-07-25 20:43:03 UTC
- Depth
- 445.8 km (277.0 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 21.660° S, 178.529° W
- Region
- Fiji
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Magnitude estimates
Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.
| Mag. | Scale | Computed by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3 | Mwc, centroid moment | USGS National Earthquake Information Center | Preferred · Reviewed |
| 5.33 | Mw, moment | ISC-GEM global catalog | Final · ±0.1 |
| 5.3 | Mwc, centroid moment | Global CMT project | Preliminary |
What happened
The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.
no people dead or missing; no people injured; no buildings damaged or destroyed
From the USGS event page for usp000fh32. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Oblique normal
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 181°, dip 18°, rake -140°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 53°, dip 79°, rake -76°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Depth from
- CONSTRAINED_BY_DEPTH_PHASES
- Station coverage gap
- 29°
- Stations used
- 212
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 2.3 and up: 13 in the 60 days after this one and 3 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.2Fiji region · 7002 days ago · 602 km deep · 82 km away
- 5.6Fiji region · 7000 days ago · 618 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 6996 days ago · 575 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 6994 days ago · 500 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 6992 days ago · 607 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 6987 days ago · 556 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.1295 km WSW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 6986 days ago · 300 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 6986 days ago · 505 km deep · 47 km away
- 3.9Fiji region · 6984 days ago · 545 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 6983 days ago · 348 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 6978 days ago · 569 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 6958 days ago · 569 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 6952 days ago · 557 km deep · 38 km away
Before
Earthquakes todayFiji earthquakesLive radar here
Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000fh32 (also filed as gcmtb200707252043a, gcmt20070725204303, iscgem13199325). Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC.