M4.7 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Sun, Oct 18, 2015, 7:50 AM GMT+12 (19:50 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.7 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2015-10-17 19:50:56 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 16.993° S, 177.173° 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.7 | mb, body-wave | USGS National Earthquake Information Center | Preferred · Reviewed · ±0.102 · 29 stations |
| 4.97 | Mw, moment | ISC-GEM global catalog | Final · ±0.1 |
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 12.1 km horizontally, 1.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.10
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 123°
- Stations used
- 46
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.7 and up: 5 in the 60 days after this one and 0 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.7297 km SSE of Alo, Wallis and Futuna · 4003 days ago · 10 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 3993 days ago · 20 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3963 days ago · 585 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 3963 days ago · 567 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3950 days ago · 412 km deep · 9 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10003ped (also filed as gcmt20151017195056, iscgem608100247). Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 9:44 AM UTC.