M4.8 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 10:50 AM GMT+13 (21:50 UTC), 600 km (373 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M6.2 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
- 4.8 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2025-12-29 21:50:33 UTC
- Depth
- 600.1 km (372.9 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 20.347° S, 178.472° 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 11.5 km horizontally, 5.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.03
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 38°
- Stations used
- 84
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.8 and up: 25 in the 60 days after this one and 17 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.1Fiji region · 278 days ago · 563 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 275 days ago · 491 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.3282 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 273 days ago · 526 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.3274 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 262 days ago · 526 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.3256 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 261 days ago · 520 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 260 days ago · 589 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.1284 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 259 days ago · 528 km deep · 76 km away
- 3.9Fiji region · 256 days ago · 597 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.2256 km W of Houma, Tonga · 253 days ago · 420 km deep · 95 km away
- 5.0Fiji region · 252 days ago · 589 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 252 days ago · 597 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 247 days ago · 533 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 246 days ago · 660 km deep · 20 km away
- 4.4295 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 243 days ago · 508 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 238 days ago · 587 km deep · 48 km away
- 6.2Fiji region · 235 days ago · 513 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.3280 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 231 days ago · 542 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 231 days ago · 494 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 231 days ago · 597 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 231 days ago · 601 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.1268 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 230 days ago · 611 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 226 days ago · 585 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.1290 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 219 days ago · 508 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 219 days ago · 509 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.4273 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 218 days ago · 503 km deep · 70 km away
Before
- 4.4Fiji region · 279 days ago · 609 km deep · 4 km away
- 4.5269 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 279 days ago · 540 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 279 days ago · 628 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 280 days ago · 591 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.4263 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 280 days ago · 515 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.5267 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 281 days ago · 503 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 281 days ago · 623 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.3281 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 283 days ago · 554 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.8278 km W of Houma, Tonga · 285 days ago · 445 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.4277 km W of Houma, Tonga · 288 days ago · 467 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.9Fiji region · 292 days ago · 603 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.4284 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 295 days ago · 515 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.2283 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 298 days ago · 523 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.2275 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 303 days ago · 531 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 304 days ago · 560 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.2260 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 304 days ago · 529 km deep · 83 km away
- 5.6Fiji region · 305 days ago · 620 km deep · 76 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000rled. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC.