M4.8 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Sun, Apr 21, 2019, 2:56 AM GMT+13 (13:56 UTC), 617 km (383 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.0 275 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.8 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2019-04-20 13:56:19 UTC
- Depth
- 617.1 km (383.5 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 20.074° S, 178.109° 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, 9.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.10
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 87°
- Stations used
- 68
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.8 and up: 28 in the 60 days after this one and 12 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.5Fiji region · 2720 days ago · 548 km deep · 83 km away
- 5.0275 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2717 days ago · 442 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.3281 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2717 days ago · 471 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.4240 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2716 days ago · 415 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2715 days ago · 536 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2714 days ago · 588 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.4266 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2711 days ago · 534 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.1274 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2711 days ago · 510 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.3264 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2710 days ago · 517 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 2709 days ago · 608 km deep · 100 km away
- 4.4299 km SE of Levuka, Fiji · 2706 days ago · 574 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2704 days ago · 551 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 2703 days ago · 567 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.3285 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2698 days ago · 500 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.1291 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2696 days ago · 556 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2695 days ago · 571 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 2693 days ago · 584 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2693 days ago · 597 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.2294 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2692 days ago · 516 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.4262 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2691 days ago · 536 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.3264 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2690 days ago · 518 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.4276 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2689 days ago · 514 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.2288 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2685 days ago · 504 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.6250 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2677 days ago · 460 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.4258 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2674 days ago · 491 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2671 days ago · 616 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2668 days ago · 549 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.4293 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2663 days ago · 505 km deep · 61 km away
Before
- 4.2265 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2722 days ago · 527 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2727 days ago · 573 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 2727 days ago · 577 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2728 days ago · 582 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2733 days ago · 549 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2736 days ago · 542 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 2737 days ago · 580 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.2242 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2740 days ago · 516 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 2741 days ago · 578 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 2748 days ago · 561 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.4262 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2750 days ago · 496 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 2751 days ago · 590 km deep · 94 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us700039mp. Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 10:43 PM UTC.