M4.5 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 3:08 PM GMT+13 (02:08 UTC), 518 km (322 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.9 292 km WNW 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
- 4.5 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2022-08-23 02:08:31 UTC
- Depth
- 517.9 km (321.8 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 19.996° S, 178.022° 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 14.2 km horizontally, 10.3 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.13
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 109°
- Stations used
- 20
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 27 in the 60 days after this one and 13 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.8276 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1501 days ago · 500 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1498 days ago · 588 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 1493 days ago · 518 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 1489 days ago · 546 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 1487 days ago · 538 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1486 days ago · 585 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 1486 days ago · 584 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.2298 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 1484 days ago · 561 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1484 days ago · 525 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 1483 days ago · 584 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.4250 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1483 days ago · 477 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 1481 days ago · 453 km deep · 83 km away · felt by 1
- 4.2Fiji region · 1474 days ago · 638 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 1472 days ago · 561 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 1472 days ago · 561 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.1232 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1469 days ago · 342 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.4275 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1469 days ago · 568 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1469 days ago · 539 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1468 days ago · 572 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 1467 days ago · 583 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 1463 days ago · 446 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.6263 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1458 days ago · 502 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 1455 days ago · 429 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.9292 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1453 days ago · 491 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 1451 days ago · 544 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1448 days ago · 578 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 1444 days ago · 581 km deep · 81 km away
Before
- 4.2Fiji region · 1505 days ago · 558 km deep · 100 km away
- 4.1269 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1509 days ago · 501 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.1281 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1510 days ago · 495 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.3285 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1513 days ago · 468 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 1514 days ago · 403 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 1515 days ago · 615 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.8276 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1515 days ago · 543 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.1251 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1518 days ago · 467 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 1521 days ago · 397 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 1524 days ago · 537 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 1528 days ago · 572 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1529 days ago · 568 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.2256 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1531 days ago · 546 km deep · 84 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000i42a. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 1:55 PM UTC.