Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Labasa in Fiji

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 216 km ESE of Labasa, Fiji (134 miles). The temblor was detected at 13:09:31 / 1:09 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 556.21 km (346 miles). Global time and date of event 13/12/25 / 2025-12-13 13:09:31 / December 13, 2025 @ 1:09 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000runk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000runk. Exact location of event, depth 556.21 km, -178.7745° West, -17.2242° South.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 216 km ESE of Labasa, Fiji.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-178.7745° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.2242° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	556.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	216 km ESE of Labasa, Fiji	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-13 13:09:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-13 14:52:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	284	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.925	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000runk	Id of event.
Event Code	6000runk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000runk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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