M4.3 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Sun, Feb 22, 2026, 4:07 AM GMT+12 (16:07 UTC), 648 km (403 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.8 238 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
- 4.3 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2026-02-21 16:07:16 UTC
- Depth
- 648.3 km (402.9 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 18.279° S, 177.803° 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 16.4 km horizontally, 13.4 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.12
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 182°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 27
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 24 in the 60 days after this one and 15 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.5290 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 225 days ago · 607 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.3272 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 225 days ago · 605 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.1282 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 223 days ago · 625 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.1291 km ESE of Levuka, Fiji · 222 days ago · 607 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.8238 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 219 days ago · 571 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 219 days ago · 539 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.1285 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 216 days ago · 509 km deep · 20 km away
- 4.2247 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 211 days ago · 598 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.4218 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 207 days ago · 558 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.4239 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 203 days ago · 589 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.6279 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 199 days ago · 539 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.6249 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 195 days ago · 576 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.2236 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 194 days ago · 570 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.4261 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 191 days ago · 580 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.2236 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 189 days ago · 557 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.1262 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 187 days ago · 493 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.3223 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 185 days ago · 591 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.3246 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 185 days ago · 583 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.0252 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 184 days ago · 581 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 180 days ago · 568 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.2258 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji · 178 days ago · 526 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 176 days ago · 625 km deep · 6 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 175 days ago · 619 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.3222 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 173 days ago · 550 km deep · 83 km away
Before
- 4.3214 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 226 days ago · 594 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.1282 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 228 days ago · 602 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 230 days ago · 585 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.2225 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 232 days ago · 568 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.3251 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 233 days ago · 526 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.4229 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 234 days ago · 589 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.6268 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 235 days ago · 554 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.3299 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 236 days ago · 448 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 236 days ago · 539 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.2253 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 240 days ago · 635 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 241 days ago · 483 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.5239 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 241 days ago · 581 km deep · 67 km away
- 5.2236 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 241 days ago · 588 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.1241 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 243 days ago · 603 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.1289 km E of Levuka, Fiji · 246 days ago · 590 km deep · 32 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000s2ji. Read Mon, Oct 5, 2026, 3:20 AM UTC.