M4.2 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 8:00 PM GMT+14 (06:00 UTC), 602 km (374 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.3 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
- 4.2 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-12-22 06:00:42 UTC
- Depth
- 601.8 km (373.9 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 20.339° S, 178.560° 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 14.1 km horizontally, 20.4 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.12
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 134°
- Stations used
- 25
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 30 in the 60 days after this one and 12 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.4Fiji region · 3569 days ago · 604 km deep · 9 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 3567 days ago · 576 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3566 days ago · 592 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.4296 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3566 days ago · 496 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3564 days ago · 546 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3564 days ago · 511 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.5282 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3562 days ago · 470 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3561 days ago · 563 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 3560 days ago · 507 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3559 days ago · 602 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 3558 days ago · 600 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.1271 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3554 days ago · 391 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 3549 days ago · 557 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3547 days ago · 590 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.6266 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3540 days ago · 554 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3538 days ago · 541 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3532 days ago · 538 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3529 days ago · 553 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3528 days ago · 571 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 3526 days ago · 580 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3523 days ago · 483 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3522 days ago · 532 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3520 days ago · 565 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3518 days ago · 469 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 3517 days ago · 534 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3515 days ago · 541 km deep · 70 km away
- 5.3Fiji region · 3514 days ago · 599 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3511 days ago · 571 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 3511 days ago · 451 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3510 days ago · 548 km deep · 57 km away
Before
- 4.3Fiji region · 3571 days ago · 589 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3576 days ago · 475 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3576 days ago · 560 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3578 days ago · 601 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.2265 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3583 days ago · 497 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3587 days ago · 548 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.4299 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3588 days ago · 515 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3588 days ago · 600 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3590 days ago · 584 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 3590 days ago · 572 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.5277 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3591 days ago · 499 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3592 days ago · 611 km deep · 49 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10007rp3. Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 7:26 AM UTC.