M4.4 earthquake Tonga
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck in Tonga on Fri, Oct 3, 2014, 10:16 AM GMT+13 (21:16 UTC), 175 km (109 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.0 180 km W of Pangai, Tonga. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.4 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2014-10-02 21:16:13 UTC
- Depth
- 174.6 km (108.5 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 19.678° S, 175.424° W
- Region
- Tonga
- 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 9.1 km horizontally, 13.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.10
- Depth from
- FROM_LOCATION
- Station coverage gap
- 109°
- Stations used
- 49
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 8 in the 60 days after this one and 4 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 5.0180 km W of Pangai, Tonga · 4382 days ago · 10 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.2141 km WNW of Pangai, Tonga · 4372 days ago · 137 km deep · 52 km away
- 5.0164 km WNW of Pangai, Tonga · 4370 days ago · 197 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.892 km NW of Pangai, Tonga · 4364 days ago · 94 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.2174 km WNW of Pangai, Tonga · 4364 days ago · 214 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.7112 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 4356 days ago · 136 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.4126 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 4346 days ago · 152 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.5129 km WNW of Pangai, Tonga · 4337 days ago · 132 km deep · 26 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usb000sm0t. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 10:32 PM UTC.