M4.5 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 5:51 AM GMT+13 (16:51 UTC), 348 km (216 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 266 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.5 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2014-08-18 16:51:53 UTC
- Depth
- 348.1 km (216.3 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 19.603° S, 177.620° W
- Region
- Fiji
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.10
- Depth from
- FROM_LOCATION
- Station coverage gap
- 133°
- Stations used
- 48
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 27 in the 60 days after this one and 13 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.2Fiji region · 4428 days ago · 570 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 4428 days ago · 592 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.4296 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4426 days ago · 496 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 4424 days ago · 561 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.2282 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4424 days ago · 522 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.3289 km ESE of Levuka, Fiji · 4420 days ago · 10 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.6278 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4419 days ago · 516 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 4410 days ago · 556 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.4281 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4409 days ago · 531 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.7266 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4409 days ago · 490 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 4405 days ago · 571 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.1285 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4399 days ago · 524 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.4289 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4398 days ago · 470 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 4395 days ago · 616 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.5289 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4393 days ago · 587 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.3261 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4393 days ago · 493 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 4393 days ago · 599 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 4389 days ago · 577 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.4280 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4387 days ago · 529 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 4387 days ago · 581 km deep · 5 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 4386 days ago · 572 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 4382 days ago · 612 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.3283 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4377 days ago · 489 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 4376 days ago · 583 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.3292 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 4373 days ago · 401 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.3272 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4371 days ago · 543 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.2294 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4371 days ago · 546 km deep · 99 km away
Before
- 4.1Fiji region · 4433 days ago · 587 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 4436 days ago · 578 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.7294 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4441 days ago · 547 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.7276 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4441 days ago · 520 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 4442 days ago · 568 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 4444 days ago · 495 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 4446 days ago · 579 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 4450 days ago · 611 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 4454 days ago · 610 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 4456 days ago · 601 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.3278 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 4458 days ago · 512 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 4458 days ago · 633 km deep · 92 km away
- 6.9Fiji region · 4458 days ago · 615 km deep · 85 km away · tsunami flag
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usc000s81e. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 5:07 PM UTC.