M4.3 earthquake 264 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 264 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga on Thu, May 2, 2019, 6:44 AM GMT+13 (17:44 UTC), 517 km (321 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.8 Fiji region. 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
- 2019-05-01 17:44:57 UTC
- Depth
- 516.9 km (321.2 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 20.323° S, 177.599° 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 14.1 km horizontally, 4.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.08
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 133°
- Stations used
- 58
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 23 in the 60 days after this one and 15 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.4Fiji region · 2704 days ago · 551 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 2703 days ago · 567 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.3285 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2698 days ago · 500 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.1291 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2696 days ago · 556 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2695 days ago · 571 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 2693 days ago · 584 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.2294 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2692 days ago · 516 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.4262 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2691 days ago · 536 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.3264 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2690 days ago · 518 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.4276 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2689 days ago · 514 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.2288 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2685 days ago · 504 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.6250 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2677 days ago · 460 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.4258 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2674 days ago · 491 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2668 days ago · 549 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.4293 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2663 days ago · 505 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.5288 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2661 days ago · 554 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2661 days ago · 571 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.1264 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2658 days ago · 527 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2657 days ago · 542 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2656 days ago · 571 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.3252 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2654 days ago · 493 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 2653 days ago · 564 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 2653 days ago · 528 km deep · 79 km away
Before
- 4.1274 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2711 days ago · 510 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.4266 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2711 days ago · 534 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 2714 days ago · 588 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2715 days ago · 536 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.4240 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2716 days ago · 415 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.3281 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2717 days ago · 471 km deep · 62 km away
- 5.0275 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2717 days ago · 442 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.3286 km W of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2718 days ago · 459 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 2719 days ago · 548 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.8Fiji region · 2721 days ago · 617 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.2265 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 2722 days ago · 527 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 2728 days ago · 582 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2733 days ago · 549 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 2736 days ago · 542 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 2738 days ago · 493 km deep · 90 km away
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