M4.0 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 3:14 AM GMT+12 (15:14 UTC), 497 km (309 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.6 271 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
- 4.0 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2020-01-21 15:14:23 UTC
- Depth
- 496.7 km (308.6 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 18.587° S, 177.800° 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 19.5 km horizontally, 9.8 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.16
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 137°
- Stations used
- 15
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 29 in the 60 days after this one and 12 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.2Fiji region · 2433 days ago · 581 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.4284 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2433 days ago · 597 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2432 days ago · 375 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.2251 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2432 days ago · 506 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.3257 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2425 days ago · 574 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 2420 days ago · 603 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.1279 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2419 days ago · 575 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2419 days ago · 574 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.2288 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2417 days ago · 575 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2414 days ago · 589 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2413 days ago · 601 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2411 days ago · 471 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.3288 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2410 days ago · 620 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.3256 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2409 days ago · 626 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2402 days ago · 567 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2401 days ago · 521 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2401 days ago · 635 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2400 days ago · 577 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.4266 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2397 days ago · 587 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.2289 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2396 days ago · 550 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2396 days ago · 562 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.3251 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2395 days ago · 598 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.4298 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2392 days ago · 496 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 2391 days ago · 544 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.6271 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2391 days ago · 577 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.6263 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2390 days ago · 604 km deep · 70 km away · felt by 2
- 4.5266 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2387 days ago · 526 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2384 days ago · 541 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.0268 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2384 days ago · 547 km deep · 51 km away
Before
- 4.3Fiji region · 2444 days ago · 583 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.6269 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2456 days ago · 617 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.2299 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2459 days ago · 586 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.2262 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2460 days ago · 549 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.7293 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2460 days ago · 581 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.4231 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2460 days ago · 597 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.3243 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2461 days ago · 593 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.5240 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2462 days ago · 578 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.5249 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2467 days ago · 575 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.5238 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2469 days ago · 566 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.0245 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 2471 days ago · 533 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2471 days ago · 614 km deep · 38 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us60007lgc. Read Wed, Sep 30, 2026, 4:25 AM UTC.