M4.5 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 12:31 PM GMT+13 (23:31 UTC), 472 km (293 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.1 258 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
- 2025-11-24 23:31:12 UTC
- Depth
- 472.1 km (293.4 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 18.689° S, 177.825° 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 9.8 km horizontally, 8.4 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.11
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 84°
- Stations used
- 41
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 19 in the 60 days after this one and 17 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.1Fiji region · 311 days ago · 569 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.1244 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 306 days ago · 597 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.2262 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 302 days ago · 624 km deep · 82 km away
- 5.1258 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 296 days ago · 576 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.4299 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 291 days ago · 620 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 291 days ago · 569 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 288 days ago · 627 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.3277 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 284 days ago · 460 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 283 days ago · 626 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 283 days ago · 598 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.3255 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 281 days ago · 610 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.4249 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 278 days ago · 560 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.5251 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 277 days ago · 537 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.2289 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 276 days ago · 584 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 272 days ago · 559 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.6264 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 263 days ago · 573 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 262 days ago · 630 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.2251 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 260 days ago · 603 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.1268 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 254 days ago · 638 km deep · 81 km away
Before
- 4.3Fiji region · 313 days ago · 620 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 313 days ago · 622 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.3238 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 313 days ago · 634 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.3297 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 317 days ago · 613 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.4245 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 321 days ago · 519 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.2279 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 322 days ago · 585 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.4266 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 324 days ago · 623 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.2284 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 325 days ago · 578 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.2295 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 326 days ago · 583 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 328 days ago · 624 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.0268 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 329 days ago · 571 km deep · 69 km away
- 5.6Fiji region · 329 days ago · 496 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.5251 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 330 days ago · 530 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 331 days ago · 572 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.4288 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 334 days ago · 567 km deep · 63 km away
- 3.9Fiji region · 337 days ago · 641 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.2272 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 340 days ago · 506 km deep · 99 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000rdkh. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 1:42 PM UTC.