M4.5 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Fri, Mar 3, 2017, 4:13 AM GMT+13 (15:13 UTC), 611 km (379 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M6.0 245 km E of Levuka, Fiji. 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
- 2017-03-02 15:13:35 UTC
- Depth
- 610.5 km (379.4 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 18.546° S, 177.639° 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 19.4 km horizontally, 13.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.11
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 195°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 34
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 8 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.2Fiji region · 3496 days ago · 490 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.2272 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3496 days ago · 627 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.6264 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3496 days ago · 516 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.0244 km ESE of Levuka, Fiji · 3496 days ago · 605 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.9247 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3484 days ago · 595 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 3482 days ago · 585 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.4261 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3478 days ago · 570 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3475 days ago · 620 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.2268 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3471 days ago · 482 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3467 days ago · 568 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.6297 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3465 days ago · 542 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3464 days ago · 406 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3464 days ago · 534 km deep · 100 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3460 days ago · 544 km deep · 54 km away
- 5.8266 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3457 days ago · 502 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.4283 km WNW of Pangai, Tonga · 3455 days ago · 297 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.2293 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3455 days ago · 539 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3454 days ago · 572 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3453 days ago · 372 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 3453 days ago · 609 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3453 days ago · 579 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 3452 days ago · 635 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.4260 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3452 days ago · 634 km deep · 83 km away
- 6.0245 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3452 days ago · 628 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.3260 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3452 days ago · 639 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.5246 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3452 days ago · 639 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3451 days ago · 526 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.2265 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3449 days ago · 460 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.2244 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3448 days ago · 582 km deep · 93 km away
Before
- 4.3293 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3500 days ago · 574 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3504 days ago · 505 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.3263 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3505 days ago · 579 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.5298 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 3510 days ago · 589 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.5257 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3514 days ago · 613 km deep · 88 km away
- 5.1240 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3522 days ago · 624 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3528 days ago · 602 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.4233 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 3528 days ago · 597 km deep · 95 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us1000886t. Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 4:22 AM UTC.