M4.2 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Sun, Feb 26, 2017, 9:33 PM GMT+13 (08:33 UTC), 529 km (329 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.9 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
- 4.2 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-02-26 08:33:21 UTC
- Depth
- 529.4 km (328.9 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 20.244° S, 177.977° 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 13.1 km horizontally, 7.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.13
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 97°
- Stations used
- 28
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 20 in the 60 days after this one and 22 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.9Fiji region · 3497 days ago · 586 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3494 days ago · 440 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3493 days ago · 613 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3493 days ago · 501 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.3273 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3490 days ago · 557 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.0280 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3487 days ago · 512 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3483 days ago · 554 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3480 days ago · 567 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.2244 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3476 days ago · 516 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.3285 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3476 days ago · 389 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3469 days ago · 590 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.9277 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3463 days ago · 407 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.3265 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3462 days ago · 364 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3461 days ago · 545 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.2274 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3461 days ago · 391 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3458 days ago · 580 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 3456 days ago · 390 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.3282 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3455 days ago · 505 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.0276 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3453 days ago · 523 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.5270 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3444 days ago · 529 km deep · 52 km away
Before
- 4.2Fiji region · 3505 days ago · 543 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 3508 days ago · 566 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3508 days ago · 426 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3509 days ago · 545 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.4283 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3509 days ago · 513 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3510 days ago · 548 km deep · 6 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 3510 days ago · 451 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3511 days ago · 571 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.3236 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3511 days ago · 527 km deep · 73 km away
- 5.3Fiji region · 3514 days ago · 599 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3515 days ago · 541 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.5267 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3516 days ago · 386 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 3516 days ago · 534 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3518 days ago · 469 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3519 days ago · 565 km deep · 7 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3522 days ago · 532 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.1273 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3525 days ago · 526 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 3525 days ago · 580 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.3286 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3526 days ago · 573 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3528 days ago · 571 km deep · 56 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us100087az. Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 2:36 AM UTC.