M4.5 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Fri, May 22, 2015, 9:47 AM GMT+12 (21:47 UTC), 590 km (367 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.8 264 km E of Levuka, Fiji. 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
- 2015-05-21 21:47:20 UTC
- Depth
- 590.5 km (366.9 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 18.256° S, 177.749° 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.
- Location uncertainty
- About 13.9 km horizontally, 7.8 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.08
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 91°
- Stations used
- 63
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 32 in the 60 days after this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.1262 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4154 days ago · 583 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.4212 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4154 days ago · 598 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 4153 days ago · 532 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 4151 days ago · 566 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 4144 days ago · 546 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.2243 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4142 days ago · 554 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.3299 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4141 days ago · 581 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.4281 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4140 days ago · 429 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.5278 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4139 days ago · 533 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.4279 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4139 days ago · 541 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 4136 days ago · 576 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.4243 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4135 days ago · 585 km deep · 76 km away
- 5.0283 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4135 days ago · 548 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.4238 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4135 days ago · 615 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.8285 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4135 days ago · 555 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.4299 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4132 days ago · 525 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.1256 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4127 days ago · 585 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.3245 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4126 days ago · 577 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.0235 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4121 days ago · 593 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.5238 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4121 days ago · 570 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 4118 days ago · 550 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.4237 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4117 days ago · 624 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.3241 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4109 days ago · 576 km deep · 70 km away
- 5.4Fiji region · 4106 days ago · 347 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.1291 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4105 days ago · 577 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.1234 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4104 days ago · 642 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.2265 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4103 days ago · 623 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 4103 days ago · 491 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.3264 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 4102 days ago · 581 km deep · 99 km away
- 5.8264 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4098 days ago · 536 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.4254 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4097 days ago · 615 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.5286 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4095 days ago · 616 km deep · 28 km away
Before
- 4.2Fiji region · 4162 days ago · 580 km deep · 100 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 4165 days ago · 604 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.0270 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4172 days ago · 490 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 4173 days ago · 562 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.1256 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4174 days ago · 591 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.3268 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 4175 days ago · 620 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.2294 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 4181 days ago · 632 km deep · 17 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us20002kz8. Read Mon, Oct 5, 2026, 12:46 PM UTC.