M5.6 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Thu, Aug 2, 2007, 3:11 AM GMT-12 (15:11 UTC), 618 km (384 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.7 south of the Fiji Islands. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.6 (Mwc, centroid moment), moderate
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2007-08-02 15:11:43 UTC
- Depth
- 617.7 km (383.8 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 21.555° S, 179.361° 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.6 | Mwc, centroid moment | USGS National Earthquake Information Center | Preferred · Reviewed |
| 5.64 | Mw, moment | ISC-GEM global catalog | Final · ±0.1 |
| 5.6 | 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 usp000fhqg. 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
- Strike-slip
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 77°, dip 18°, rake 168°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 178°, dip 86°, rake 72°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Depth from
- CONSTRAINED_BY_DEPTH_PHASES
- Station coverage gap
- 18°
- Stations used
- 309
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 2.6 and up: 8 in the 60 days after this one and 3 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.8Fiji region · 6998 days ago · 575 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 6996 days ago · 500 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 6994 days ago · 607 km deep · 81 km away
- 5.7south of the Fiji Islands · 6993 days ago · 606 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 6987 days ago · 505 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.4south of the Fiji Islands · 6966 days ago · 547 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 6960 days ago · 569 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 6953 days ago · 557 km deep · 48 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000fhqg (also filed as gcmtc200708021511a, gcmt20070802151143, iscgem13199746). Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 10:45 AM UTC.