M4.5 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 7:14 PM GMT+13 (06:14 UTC), 548 km (340 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 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), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2019-01-08 06:14:55 UTC
- Depth
- 547.8 km (340.4 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 19.175° S, 177.552° 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 19.3 km horizontally, 14.7 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.12
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 162°
- Stations used
- 22
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 8 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.7Fiji region · 2810 days ago · 572 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.2287 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2808 days ago · 561 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2803 days ago · 564 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2792 days ago · 482 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2788 days ago · 584 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2788 days ago · 330 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.4267 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2787 days ago · 560 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2780 days ago · 507 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2779 days ago · 610 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2769 days ago · 576 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.1283 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2758 days ago · 384 km deep · 79 km away
Before
- 4.1Fiji region · 2823 days ago · 437 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2825 days ago · 590 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 2828 days ago · 516 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.5265 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2831 days ago · 589 km deep · 100 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 2832 days ago · 556 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2836 days ago · 564 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2841 days ago · 593 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2844 days ago · 558 km deep · 38 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us2000j8bn. Read Tue, Sep 22, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC.