M4.5 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 4:08 PM GMT+13 (03:08 UTC), 584 km (363 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 293 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), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2019-12-11 03:08:25 UTC
- Depth
- 584.0 km (362.9 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 18.364° S, 177.728° 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 11.2 km horizontally, 8.2 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.11
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 135°
- Stations used
- 42
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 24 in the 60 days after this one and 13 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.2287 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2480 days ago · 575 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2479 days ago · 609 km deep · 6 km away
- 4.1265 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2475 days ago · 529 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.5290 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2475 days ago · 437 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.2268 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2474 days ago · 488 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2473 days ago · 421 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2471 days ago · 614 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.0245 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2471 days ago · 533 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.5238 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2469 days ago · 566 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.5249 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2467 days ago · 575 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.5240 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2462 days ago · 578 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.3243 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2461 days ago · 593 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.4231 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2460 days ago · 597 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.7293 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2460 days ago · 581 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.2262 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2460 days ago · 549 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.2299 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2459 days ago · 586 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.6269 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2456 days ago · 617 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.2232 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2446 days ago · 598 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.2229 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2446 days ago · 542 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 2444 days ago · 497 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.4284 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2433 days ago · 597 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2433 days ago · 375 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.2251 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2432 days ago · 506 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.0267 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2428 days ago · 607 km deep · 85 km away
Before
- 4.2278 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2490 days ago · 577 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2491 days ago · 511 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.2232 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2492 days ago · 597 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.2246 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2500 days ago · 541 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.4236 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2500 days ago · 562 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.4257 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2500 days ago · 585 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.4273 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2502 days ago · 581 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.3293 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2503 days ago · 582 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2505 days ago · 605 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2507 days ago · 539 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.2232 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2510 days ago · 591 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.4297 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2512 days ago · 478 km deep · 53 km away · felt by 1
- 4.2263 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2512 days ago · 562 km deep · 51 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us60006t8x. Read Wed, Sep 30, 2026, 4:52 AM UTC.