M4.5 earthquake 108 km NE of Hihifo, Tonga
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 108 km NE of Hihifo, Tonga on Fri, Aug 5, 2022, 2:13 PM GMT+13 (01:13 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.2 115 km NNE of Hihifo, Tonga. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.5 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2022-08-05 01:13:01 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 15.143° S, 173.235° 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 4.5 km horizontally, 1.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.13
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 123°
- Stations used
- 22
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 10 in the 60 days after this one and 9 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.3151 km ENE of Hihifo, Tonga · 1517 days ago · 10 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.5105 km E of Hihifo, Tonga · 1515 days ago · 10 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.4113 km N of Hihifo, Tonga · 1501 days ago · 35 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.4103 km N of Hihifo, Tonga · 1500 days ago · 44 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.2114 km N of Hihifo, Tonga · 1496 days ago · 10 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.7124 km ENE of Hihifo, Tonga · 1490 days ago · 10 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.8114 km NNE of Hihifo, Tonga · 1483 days ago · 10 km deep · 39 km away
- 5.2115 km NNE of Hihifo, Tonga · 1470 days ago · 25 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.5Tonga · 1466 days ago · 97 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.3101 km ENE of Hihifo, Tonga · 1463 days ago · 10 km deep · 70 km away
Before
- 4.198 km NNE of Hihifo, Tonga · 1539 days ago · 10 km deep · 31 km away
- 5.0112 km NE of Hihifo, Tonga · 1541 days ago · 10 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.3109 km N of Hihifo, Tonga · 1542 days ago · 18 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.8141 km SSW of Gataivai, Samoa · 1543 days ago · 10 km deep · 61 km away
- 5.7141 km SSW of Gataivai, Samoa · 1543 days ago · 10 km deep · 36 km away · felt by 1
- 4.7146 km NE of Hihifo, Tonga · 1543 days ago · 10 km deep · 50 km away
- 5.8118 km NE of Hihifo, Tonga · 1543 days ago · 10 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.4136 km ENE of Hihifo, Tonga · 1543 days ago · 10 km deep · 64 km away
- 5.6136 km NE of Hihifo, Tonga · 1543 days ago · 10 km deep · 29 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000i889. Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC.