M4.4 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Thu, Mar 7, 2024, 9:28 AM GMT+13 (20:28 UTC), 620 km (385 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.8 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
- 2024-03-06 20:28:25 UTC
- Depth
- 619.7 km (385.1 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 20.200° S, 178.608° 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 13.8 km horizontally, 10.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.13
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 72°
- Stations used
- 24
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 26 in the 60 days after this one and 17 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.1Fiji region · 939 days ago · 521 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 938 days ago · 532 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 938 days ago · 525 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 937 days ago · 597 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 936 days ago · 536 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 935 days ago · 613 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 932 days ago · 585 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 931 days ago · 596 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.6278 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 931 days ago · 511 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 928 days ago · 546 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 925 days ago · 560 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 922 days ago · 596 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 917 days ago · 566 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 917 days ago · 566 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.2282 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 916 days ago · 557 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 914 days ago · 545 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 910 days ago · 584 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 909 days ago · 532 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.4282 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 908 days ago · 538 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.2290 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 900 days ago · 389 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 897 days ago · 600 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 895 days ago · 579 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 894 days ago · 603 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 893 days ago · 559 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 888 days ago · 574 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 885 days ago · 455 km deep · 83 km away
Before
- 4.2Fiji region · 940 days ago · 619 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 941 days ago · 601 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 941 days ago · 615 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.3287 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 941 days ago · 530 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 942 days ago · 577 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 945 days ago · 546 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 945 days ago · 548 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 945 days ago · 542 km deep · 50 km away
- 5.8Fiji region · 945 days ago · 546 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.0275 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 951 days ago · 505 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 954 days ago · 516 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 958 days ago · 592 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 961 days ago · 586 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 963 days ago · 593 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 964 days ago · 564 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 965 days ago · 542 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 967 days ago · 601 km deep · 88 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000migj. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 9:40 PM UTC.