M4.4 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Thu, Dec 8, 2022, 5:02 AM GMT+12 (17:02 UTC), 507 km (315 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.6 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
- 4.4 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2022-12-07 17:02:31 UTC
- Depth
- 507.4 km (315.3 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 18.143° S, 177.825° 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 12.5 km horizontally, 11.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.13
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 99°
- Stations used
- 19
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 10 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.2239 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1392 days ago · 585 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.0252 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 1391 days ago · 567 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.5273 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1390 days ago · 575 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1385 days ago · 575 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 1375 days ago · 616 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1374 days ago · 614 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 1373 days ago · 574 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 1373 days ago · 623 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 1370 days ago · 525 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 1368 days ago · 572 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.4249 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1368 days ago · 610 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.2288 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1366 days ago · 588 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.0263 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1364 days ago · 574 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.1220 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1363 days ago · 547 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.2295 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1363 days ago · 498 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.5278 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1361 days ago · 498 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.1296 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1361 days ago · 620 km deep · 7 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 1359 days ago · 541 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.2238 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1356 days ago · 543 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.3247 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 1355 days ago · 544 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.3283 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1353 days ago · 590 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.3242 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1353 days ago · 612 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.4251 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1350 days ago · 567 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 1347 days ago · 569 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1346 days ago · 588 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.0297 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1342 days ago · 564 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.4246 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 1340 days ago · 545 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.4231 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1340 days ago · 564 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.3268 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1337 days ago · 568 km deep · 36 km away
Before
- 4.2Fiji region · 1395 days ago · 567 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 1395 days ago · 418 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.6237 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1400 days ago · 568 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.3286 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1403 days ago · 619 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1405 days ago · 612 km deep · 58 km away
- 5.0279 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1407 days ago · 543 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.3240 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 1408 days ago · 556 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 1411 days ago · 551 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.3237 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1416 days ago · 575 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.3296 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1424 days ago · 510 km deep · 6 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000j8t4. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 1:44 AM UTC.