M4.5 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 6:04 PM GMT-12 (06:04 UTC), 593 km (369 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.0 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
- 4.5 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2015-06-12 06:04:22 UTC
- Depth
- 593.2 km (368.6 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 21.706° S, 179.411° 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 12.4 km horizontally, 7.4 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.12
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 76°
- Stations used
- 42
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 9 in the 60 days after this one and 4 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.6Fiji region · 4122 days ago · 570 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 4121 days ago · 554 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.3south of the Fiji Islands · 4117 days ago · 634 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 4115 days ago · 613 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 4106 days ago · 574 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 4096 days ago · 464 km deep · 91 km away
- 5.0south of the Fiji Islands · 4087 days ago · 567 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 4083 days ago · 528 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.5south of the Fiji Islands · 4075 days ago · 598 km deep · 59 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us20002p96. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC.