Earthquakes in Fiji, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 1,534 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Fiji. 3 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 8.2 on August 19, 2018 (2018 Fiji Earthquake).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 4 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 4.5 on October 20 (100 km SSW of Alo, Wallis and Futuna). The strongest: magnitude 5.1 on October 8 (236 km E of Levuka, Fiji).
What the record holds
3 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records no deaths for any of them. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 7.9 on September 6, 2018 (45 km S of Levuka, Fiji). NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began in or off Fiji. The highest of them reached 0.07 m, on January 3, 2017.
The events
- November 12, 2022Earthquake · M 7.0Fiji regionUSGS
- November 18, 2018Earthquake · M 6.8187 km E of Levuka, FijiUSGS
- September 6, 2018Earthquake · M 7.945 km S of Levuka, FijiUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- August 19, 2018Earthquake · M 8.22018 Fiji EarthquakeUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- January 3, 2017Earthquake · M 6.9225 km SW of Nadi, FijiUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- January 3, 2017Tsunami · 0.07 m highFiji IslandsNOAA NCEI
Good to know
- An event counts for Fiji when it began inside its borders, or at sea within 100 km of its coast (so one can count for two neighbours), or further out, up to 300 km, where Fiji is the nearest country.
- USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
- NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
- Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
- A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
- The map frames the box around Fiji, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
- Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.
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