M4.3 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 8:41 AM GMT+13 (19:41 UTC), 609 km (378 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
- 4.3 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2019-12-16 19:41:56 UTC
- Depth
- 609.1 km (378.5 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 18.407° S, 177.763° 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 13.4 km horizontally, 5.7 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.08
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 117°
- Stations used
- 56
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 12 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.1265 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2477 days ago · 529 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.5290 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2477 days ago · 437 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.2268 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2476 days ago · 488 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2474 days ago · 614 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.0245 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2473 days ago · 533 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.5238 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2471 days ago · 566 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.5249 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2469 days ago · 575 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.5240 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2465 days ago · 578 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.3243 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2464 days ago · 593 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.4231 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2462 days ago · 597 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.7293 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2462 days ago · 581 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.2262 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2462 days ago · 549 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.2299 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2462 days ago · 586 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.6269 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2458 days ago · 617 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.2232 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2449 days ago · 598 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.2229 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2448 days ago · 542 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 2446 days ago · 497 km deep · 20 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2436 days ago · 581 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.4284 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2435 days ago · 597 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2435 days ago · 375 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.2251 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2434 days ago · 506 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.0267 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2430 days ago · 607 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.3257 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2427 days ago · 574 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 2422 days ago · 603 km deep · 44 km away
Before
- 4.2287 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2482 days ago · 575 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 2487 days ago · 584 km deep · 6 km away
- 4.2278 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2492 days ago · 577 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2494 days ago · 511 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.2232 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2494 days ago · 597 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.2246 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2502 days ago · 541 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.4236 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2502 days ago · 562 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.4257 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2502 days ago · 585 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.4273 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2504 days ago · 581 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.3293 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2505 days ago · 582 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2507 days ago · 605 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2509 days ago · 539 km deep · 65 km away
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