M4.5 earthquake 295 km E of Levuka, Fiji
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 295 km E of Levuka, Fiji on Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 6:49 AM GMT+12 (18:49 UTC), 618 km (384 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.4 239 km E of Levuka, Fiji. 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
- 2024-01-12 18:49:10 UTC
- Depth
- 617.6 km (383.8 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 18.182° S, 177.893° 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 13.4 km horizontally, 7.8 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.07
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 42°
- Stations used
- 66
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 23 in the 60 days after this one and 15 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.1249 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 993 days ago · 608 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.4242 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 989 days ago · 550 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.5228 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 988 days ago · 588 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.3212 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 985 days ago · 565 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.0227 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 977 days ago · 591 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 977 days ago · 532 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.2227 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 976 days ago · 548 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.2288 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 971 days ago · 625 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 965 days ago · 498 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.5266 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 960 days ago · 528 km deep · 30 km away · felt by 1
- 4.2250 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 957 days ago · 492 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 955 days ago · 603 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.0294 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 954 days ago · 555 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.9243 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 947 days ago · 550 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.4233 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 946 days ago · 593 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.3222 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 946 days ago · 555 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.3254 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 938 days ago · 588 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.3254 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 938 days ago · 589 km deep · 45 km away
- 5.4239 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 937 days ago · 593 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.9225 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 935 days ago · 573 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.1264 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 935 days ago · 628 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 934 days ago · 564 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.6285 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 934 days ago · 576 km deep · 28 km away
Before
- 4.8291 km ESE of Levuka, Fiji · 995 days ago · 499 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 1001 days ago · 566 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.2213 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1002 days ago · 562 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.6299 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1002 days ago · 580 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.6242 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1003 days ago · 606 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.4256 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 1006 days ago · 541 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.0253 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1012 days ago · 511 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.2252 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1015 days ago · 559 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.3226 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1015 days ago · 568 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.4228 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1016 days ago · 589 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.4219 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1016 days ago · 570 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.0269 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 1018 days ago · 576 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 1021 days ago · 582 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 1023 days ago · 564 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.9Fiji region · 1023 days ago · 595 km deep · 66 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000m3d1. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC.