M6.4 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Sun, Jul 20, 2008, 10:39 AM GMT+12 (22:39 UTC), 391 km (243 mi) below the surface.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.4 (Mwc, centroid moment), strong
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2008-07-19 22:39:52 UTC
- Depth
- 391.0 km (243.0 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 17.337° S, 177.312° 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.4 | Mwc, centroid moment | USGS National Earthquake Information Center | Preferred · Reviewed |
| 6.42 | Mw, moment | ISC-GEM global catalog | Final · ±0.1 |
| 6.4 | Mwc, centroid moment | Global CMT project | Preliminary |
| 5.58 | Me, energy | Choy, USGS energy magnitude | Reviewed |
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 usp000gcnf. 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 271°, dip 42°, rake -134°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 143°, dip 61°, rake -58°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Depth from
- CONSTRAINED_BY_DEPTH_PHASES
- Station coverage gap
- 24°
- Stations used
- 563
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 3.4 and up: 4 in the 60 days after this one and 6 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 5.0273 km SSE of Alo, Wallis and Futuna · 6646 days ago · 35 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.5277 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 6630 days ago · 616 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.6260 km SSE of Alo, Wallis and Futuna · 6613 days ago · 404 km deep · 91 km away
- 3.8Fiji region · 6597 days ago · 522 km deep · 84 km away
Before
- 4.0Fiji region · 6651 days ago · 417 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.5296 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 6653 days ago · 500 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 6654 days ago · 363 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 6663 days ago · 328 km deep · 46 km away
- 3.6Fiji region · 6668 days ago · 402 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 6670 days ago · 35 km deep · 50 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000gcnf (also filed as choy20080719223952, gcmtc200807192239a, gcmt20080719223952, iscgem12951442). Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 1:47 AM UTC.