M4.6 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Mon, Jan 18, 2016, 8:23 AM GMT-12 (20:23 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.8 Fiji region. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.6 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-01-18 20:23:35 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 17.346° S, 176.922° 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 13.7 km horizontally, 1.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.16
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 174°
- Stations used
- 21
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.6 and up: 2 in the 60 days after this one and 2 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.8Fiji region · 3904 days ago · 25 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.8294 km SSE of Alo, Wallis and Futuna · 3904 days ago · 22 km deep · 65 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10004gdb. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 8:42 AM UTC.