M4.4 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 10:41 AM GMT+13 (21:41 UTC), 608 km (378 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.5 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
- 4.4 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2018-09-27 21:41:22 UTC
- Depth
- 608.3 km (378.0 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 18.903° S, 177.152° 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 15.1 km horizontally, 10.1 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.09
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 68°
- Stations used
- 38
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 11 in the 60 days after this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.3296 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2921 days ago · 568 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2912 days ago · 562 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2910 days ago · 636 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2903 days ago · 580 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.3291 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2900 days ago · 443 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2900 days ago · 524 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 2898 days ago · 530 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2893 days ago · 606 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.5290 km WNW of Pangai, Tonga · 2892 days ago · 607 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 2886 days ago · 544 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2874 days ago · 485 km deep · 71 km away
Before
- 4.5Fiji region · 2935 days ago · 368 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2936 days ago · 430 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.1297 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 2938 days ago · 554 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2944 days ago · 585 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2948 days ago · 621 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.1276 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2949 days ago · 533 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2950 days ago · 521 km deep · 76 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us1000h6e7. Read Tue, Sep 29, 2026, 7:24 PM UTC.