M4.5 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 6:01 AM GMT+13 (17:01 UTC), 342 km (212 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M6.9 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
- 4.5 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-08-29 17:01:02 UTC
- Depth
- 341.8 km (212.4 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 19.317° S, 177.539° 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 15.2 km horizontally, 7.5 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.04
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 148°
- Stations used
- 170
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 29 in the 60 days after this one and 10 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.4Fiji region · 3684 days ago · 579 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.3298 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3684 days ago · 592 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3682 days ago · 551 km deep · 5 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 3677 days ago · 571 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3677 days ago · 576 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 3672 days ago · 539 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 3666 days ago · 629 km deep · 81 km away
- 6.9Fiji region · 3659 days ago · 596 km deep · 90 km away · felt by 1 · tsunami flag
- 5.0Fiji region · 3659 days ago · 591 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 3659 days ago · 589 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3659 days ago · 596 km deep · 64 km away
- 5.1Fiji region · 3659 days ago · 587 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3659 days ago · 608 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3659 days ago · 593 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3659 days ago · 601 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3659 days ago · 595 km deep · 88 km away
- 5.1Fiji region · 3659 days ago · 581 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 3659 days ago · 491 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3658 days ago · 603 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 3658 days ago · 588 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.8263 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3656 days ago · 517 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3651 days ago · 555 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.2266 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3649 days ago · 562 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3643 days ago · 603 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3642 days ago · 587 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.3270 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3639 days ago · 563 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 3639 days ago · 429 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.4294 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3628 days ago · 537 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.3279 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3626 days ago · 596 km deep · 56 km away
Before
- 4.4Fiji region · 3688 days ago · 625 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 3688 days ago · 559 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.4269 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3691 days ago · 513 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3693 days ago · 573 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 3694 days ago · 587 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.3251 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 3697 days ago · 343 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.4270 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3698 days ago · 567 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 3699 days ago · 550 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3708 days ago · 556 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.4275 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3714 days ago · 569 km deep · 67 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us20006v2m. Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 8:07 PM UTC.