The Seismology Section of the Fiji Mineral Resource Department in collaboration with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) issued a bulletin on 4 January 2017 at 12:15PM (GMT+13) informing the public that the Tsunami threat to the whole Fiji Group is over and the warning earlier issued has been cancelled.

An earthquake occurred at 10:53AM Fiji local time (GMT+13) on 4 January 2017. PTWC reported the following earthquake parameters in their final update:

PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
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  * MAGNITUDE      7.0
  * ORIGIN TIME    2153 UTC JAN 3 2017
  * COORDINATES    19.5 SOUTH  176.2 EAST
  * DEPTH          10 KM / 6 MILES
  * LOCATION       SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS