M4.3 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Mon, Jan 23, 2017, 9:32 PM GMT+13 (08:32 UTC), 541 km (336 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
- 4.3 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-01-23 08:32:41 UTC
- Depth
- 541.5 km (336.5 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 21.131° S, 178.737° 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 12.3 km horizontally, 7.2 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.11
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 102°
- Stations used
- 30
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 28 in the 60 days after this one and 14 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.5Fiji region · 3533 days ago · 585 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3532 days ago · 538 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3529 days ago · 553 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3528 days ago · 571 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 3526 days ago · 580 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3523 days ago · 483 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3522 days ago · 532 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3518 days ago · 469 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 3517 days ago · 534 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3515 days ago · 541 km deep · 43 km away
- 5.3Fiji region · 3514 days ago · 599 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3511 days ago · 571 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3510 days ago · 527 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3509 days ago · 545 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 3508 days ago · 566 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 3506 days ago · 584 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3506 days ago · 543 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3502 days ago · 523 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 3501 days ago · 532 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 3499 days ago · 634 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.9Fiji region · 3498 days ago · 586 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3497 days ago · 622 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 3496 days ago · 605 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3494 days ago · 613 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 3494 days ago · 501 km deep · 65 km away
- 5.1Fiji region · 3490 days ago · 584 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3483 days ago · 554 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.9Fiji region · 3481 days ago · 560 km deep · 27 km away
Before
- 4.7Fiji region · 3545 days ago · 619 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3547 days ago · 583 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.6271 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3549 days ago · 479 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 3550 days ago · 557 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.3279 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3558 days ago · 476 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3558 days ago · 606 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3559 days ago · 602 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 3560 days ago · 507 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 3561 days ago · 563 km deep · 7 km away
- 4.5282 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3562 days ago · 470 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3564 days ago · 511 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 3564 days ago · 546 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.4296 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 3566 days ago · 496 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 3566 days ago · 592 km deep · 62 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us20008i72. Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 8:04 AM UTC.