M4.3 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 5:18 AM GMT+13 (16:18 UTC), 575 km (357 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
- 4.3 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2025-04-11 16:18:13 UTC
- Depth
- 575.3 km (357.5 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 20.583° S, 178.447° 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 14.9 km horizontally, 9.1 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.09
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 91°
- Stations used
- 31
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 30 in the 60 days after this one and 10 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.3Fiji region · 539 days ago · 551 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.4272 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 534 days ago · 510 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.1281 km W of Houma, Tonga · 534 days ago · 464 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 533 days ago · 601 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 522 days ago · 600 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 521 days ago · 559 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 521 days ago · 607 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 519 days ago · 585 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.2299 km W of Houma, Tonga · 515 days ago · 480 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 513 days ago · 577 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.5292 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 513 days ago · 496 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 511 days ago · 623 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.5279 km W of Houma, Tonga · 511 days ago · 499 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 510 days ago · 619 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 507 days ago · 498 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.5258 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 506 days ago · 513 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.4259 km W of Houma, Tonga · 506 days ago · 478 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.1293 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 506 days ago · 597 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.4271 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 503 days ago · 504 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.5279 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 501 days ago · 537 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 500 days ago · 622 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 497 days ago · 598 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.0292 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 497 days ago · 515 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.0272 km W of Houma, Tonga · 493 days ago · 425 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.2274 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 490 days ago · 503 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.3274 km W of Houma, Tonga · 482 days ago · 497 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.1295 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 482 days ago · 554 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.0284 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 482 days ago · 497 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.3275 km W of Houma, Tonga · 481 days ago · 433 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 480 days ago · 603 km deep · 70 km away
Before
- 4.1286 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 541 days ago · 523 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 542 days ago · 565 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 543 days ago · 579 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 545 days ago · 586 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.6299 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 547 days ago · 526 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 551 days ago · 583 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 553 days ago · 533 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.5261 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 565 days ago · 516 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 566 days ago · 561 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 567 days ago · 508 km deep · 86 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000putq. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 1:08 AM UTC.