M4.2 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Sat, May 15, 2021, 1:33 PM GMT+13 (00:33 UTC), 629 km (391 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M6.1 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
- 4.2 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-05-15 00:33:38 UTC
- Depth
- 628.8 km (390.7 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 21.168° S, 178.749° 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 15.1 km horizontally, 9.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.17
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 136°
- Stations used
- 21
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 12 in the 60 days after this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.2Fiji region · 1956 days ago · 601 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1953 days ago · 566 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1953 days ago · 550 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 1951 days ago · 620 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 1944 days ago · 572 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 1939 days ago · 581 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 1937 days ago · 579 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 1930 days ago · 578 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 1919 days ago · 624 km deep · 77 km away
- 6.1Fiji region · 1914 days ago · 600 km deep · 99 km away · felt by 1
- 4.2Fiji region · 1914 days ago · 566 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 1911 days ago · 571 km deep · 95 km away
Before
- 4.1Fiji region · 1965 days ago · 584 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 1974 days ago · 566 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1978 days ago · 568 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 1980 days ago · 490 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1981 days ago · 548 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 1990 days ago · 582 km deep · 86 km away
- 5.4Fiji region · 1991 days ago · 578 km deep · 87 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000e4r8. Read Mon, Sep 28, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC.