M4.6 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 7:43 AM GMT+13 (18:43 UTC), 559 km (347 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.0 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
- 4.6 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2024-04-22 18:43:38 UTC
- Depth
- 558.7 km (347.2 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 20.821° S, 178.350° 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 8.0 km horizontally, 5.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.04
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 43°
- Stations used
- 64
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.6 and up: 25 in the 60 days after this one and 15 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.3245 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 888 days ago · 520 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 878 days ago · 592 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 877 days ago · 587 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 875 days ago · 526 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.3261 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 875 days ago · 542 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.1283 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 875 days ago · 486 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 875 days ago · 532 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 874 days ago · 572 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.4270 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 871 days ago · 474 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.1274 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 869 days ago · 481 km deep · 71 km away
- 5.0Fiji region · 869 days ago · 578 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.3269 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 868 days ago · 480 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 867 days ago · 517 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 860 days ago · 538 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.1285 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 858 days ago · 556 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 856 days ago · 585 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.3297 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 855 days ago · 550 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 854 days ago · 554 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 852 days ago · 529 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 849 days ago · 591 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 849 days ago · 611 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 846 days ago · 543 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.1249 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 844 days ago · 506 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.4256 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 838 days ago · 489 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.7261 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 838 days ago · 486 km deep · 99 km away
Before
- 4.1Fiji region · 893 days ago · 603 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 895 days ago · 579 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 896 days ago · 600 km deep · 50 km away
- 5.4266 km W of Houma, Tonga · 898 days ago · 388 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.8260 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 902 days ago · 492 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.4282 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 907 days ago · 538 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 908 days ago · 532 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 909 days ago · 584 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.4248 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 909 days ago · 495 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.2271 km W of Houma, Tonga · 912 days ago · 473 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 914 days ago · 545 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.2282 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 915 days ago · 557 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 916 days ago · 566 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 917 days ago · 566 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 921 days ago · 596 km deep · 77 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000mt0x. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 11:37 AM UTC.