M4.8 earthquake Tonga

Magnitude

4.8 (mb), light

Local time

Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 3:03 PM GMT+13

UTC

2022-01-24 02:03:14 UTC

Depth

10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow

Epicenter

20.701° S, 175.560° W

Region

Tonga

Tsunami flag

No

Status

Reviewed by a seismologist

Location uncertainty

About 13.0 km horizontally, 1.9 km in depth

Magnitude uncertainty

±0.07

Depth from

Operator assigned

Station coverage gap

96°

Stations used

65

• Nuku‘alofa, TongaPopulation 22,400. Forecast61 kmNW

After

1. 4.739 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaTue, Jan 25, 12:36 AM GMT+13 · 1709 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away · felt by 6
2. 4.977 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaTue, Jan 25, 10:17 AM GMT+13 · 1709 days ago · 131 km deep · 24 km away
3. 4.8TongaTue, Jan 25, 12:29 PM GMT+13 · 1708 days ago · 10 km deep · 11 km away
4. 4.546 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaWed, Jan 26, 1:25 AM GMT+13 · 1708 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
5. 4.956 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaWed, Jan 26, 12:34 PM GMT+13 · 1707 days ago · 10 km deep · 19 km away
6. 4.668 km N of Nuku‘alofa, TongaWed, Jan 26, 10:39 PM GMT+13 · 1707 days ago · 10 km deep · 42 km away
7. 5.063 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Jan 27, 1:55 PM GMT+13 · 1706 days ago · 10 km deep · 19 km away
8. 4.753 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaFri, Jan 28, 12:14 AM GMT+13 · 1706 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
9. 4.955 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaFri, Jan 28, 2:33 PM GMT+13 · 1705 days ago · 10 km deep · 13 km away
10. 4.533 km SSW of Vaini, TongaSat, Jan 29, 4:37 AM GMT+13 · 1705 days ago · 10 km deep · 89 km away
11. 4.942 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSat, Jan 29, 10:12 AM GMT+13 · 1705 days ago · 10 km deep · 20 km away
12. 4.968 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSun, Jan 30, 10:21 AM GMT+13 · 1704 days ago · 10 km deep · 12 km away
13. 4.642 km N of Kolonga, TongaMon, Jan 31, 6:53 AM GMT+13 · 1703 days ago · 10 km deep · 52 km away
14. 4.767 km N of Nuku‘alofa, TongaTue, Feb 1, 9:07 AM GMT+13 · 1702 days ago · 10 km deep · 30 km away
15. 4.635 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaTue, Feb 1, 11:18 AM GMT+13 · 1701 days ago · 10 km deep · 27 km away
16. 4.446 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaTue, Feb 1, 5:49 PM GMT+13 · 1701 days ago · 10 km deep · 16 km away
17. 4.953 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaWed, Feb 2, 8:58 AM GMT+13 · 1701 days ago · 10 km deep · 12 km away · felt by 2
18. 4.750 km NW of Haveluloto, TongaThu, Feb 3, 5:09 AM GMT+13 · 1700 days ago · 10 km deep · 17 km away
19. 4.650 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Feb 3, 5:29 AM GMT+13 · 1700 days ago · 10 km deep · 15 km away
20. 5.048 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSat, Feb 5, 2:06 AM GMT+13 · 1698 days ago · 10 km deep · 18 km away
21. 4.651 km N of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSat, Feb 5, 9:15 AM GMT+13 · 1698 days ago · 10 km deep · 31 km away
22. 4.958 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaMon, Feb 7, 1:21 AM GMT+13 · 1696 days ago · 10 km deep · 15 km away
23. 4.761 km NNW of Houma, TongaTue, Feb 8, 2:05 AM GMT+13 · 1695 days ago · 10 km deep · 3 km away
24. 4.666 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaTue, Feb 8, 7:06 AM GMT+13 · 1695 days ago · 10 km deep · 21 km away
25. 4.954 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaWed, Feb 9, 8:21 PM GMT+13 · 1693 days ago · 10 km deep · 7 km away
26. 4.592 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaWed, Feb 9, 8:31 PM GMT+13 · 1693 days ago · 10 km deep · 32 km away
27. 4.956 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaFri, Feb 11, 5:16 AM GMT+13 · 1692 days ago · 10 km deep · 11 km away
28. 4.542 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaFri, Feb 11, 7:19 PM GMT+13 · 1691 days ago · 10 km deep · 19 km away
29. 4.978 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSun, Feb 13, 12:22 PM GMT+13 · 1689 days ago · 10 km deep · 24 km away
30. 4.5TongaTue, Feb 15, 4:48 AM GMT+13 · 1688 days ago · 10 km deep · 28 km away
31. 5.048 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaWed, Feb 16, 10:28 PM GMT+13 · 1686 days ago · 10 km deep · 14 km away
32. 4.614 km SSW of Vaini, TongaSun, Feb 20, 2:00 AM GMT+13 · 1683 days ago · 10 km deep · 78 km away
33. 4.3110 km NW of Haveluloto, TongaSun, Feb 20, 4:10 AM GMT+13 · 1683 days ago · 143 km deep · 55 km away
34. 5.031 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSat, Feb 26, 2:41 AM GMT+13 · 1677 days ago · 10 km deep · 30 km away
35. 4.844 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Mar 3, 3:20 AM GMT+13 · 1672 days ago · 10 km deep · 19 km away
36. 4.6149 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Mar 3, 12:47 PM GMT+13 · 1671 days ago · 235 km deep · 89 km away
37. 4.663 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaMon, Mar 7, 7:07 AM GMT+13 · 1668 days ago · 10 km deep · 3 km away
38. 4.196 km WNW of Haveluloto, TongaFri, Mar 11, 3:02 PM GMT+13 · 1663 days ago · 198 km deep · 66 km away
39. 4.956 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaFri, Mar 11, 10:46 PM GMT+13 · 1663 days ago · 10 km deep · 8 km away
40. 4.7115 km WNW of Haveluloto, TongaSat, Mar 12, 1:58 AM GMT+13 · 1663 days ago · 212 km deep · 65 km away
41. 5.4139 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaWed, Mar 16, 1:39 PM GMT+13 · 1658 days ago · 188 km deep · 80 km away
42. 4.840 km N of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSun, Mar 20, 2:06 PM GMT+13 · 1654 days ago · 10 km deep · 37 km away
43. 4.578 km WNW of Haveluloto, TongaFri, Mar 25, 8:47 AM GMT+13 · 1650 days ago · 72 km deep · 33 km away

Before

1. 4.646 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaMon, Jan 24, 1:24 AM GMT+13 · 1710 days ago · 10 km deep · 15 km away
2. 4.866 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSun, Jan 23, 10:21 AM GMT+13 · 1711 days ago · 10 km deep · 26 km away
3. 4.660 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSun, Jan 23, 12:09 AM GMT+13 · 1711 days ago · 10 km deep · 9 km away
4. 4.744 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSat, Jan 22, 6:12 PM GMT+13 · 1711 days ago · 10 km deep · 19 km away
5. 4.741 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSat, Jan 22, 1:50 PM GMT+13 · 1711 days ago · 10 km deep · 24 km away
6. 4.854 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSat, Jan 22, 8:50 AM GMT+13 · 1712 days ago · 10 km deep · 16 km away
7. 4.941 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaSat, Jan 22, 2:22 AM GMT+13 · 1712 days ago · 10 km deep · 21 km away
8. 4.741 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaFri, Jan 21, 6:45 PM GMT+13 · 1712 days ago · 10 km deep · 29 km away
9. 4.776 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaFri, Jan 21, 12:33 PM GMT+13 · 1712 days ago · 10 km deep · 28 km away
10. 4.837 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaFri, Jan 21, 9:05 AM GMT+13 · 1713 days ago · 10 km deep · 24 km away
11. 4.8TongaFri, Jan 21, 6:10 AM GMT+13 · 1713 days ago · 10 km deep · 26 km away
12. 4.743 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Jan 20, 11:32 PM GMT+13 · 1713 days ago · 10 km deep · 18 km away
13. 4.664 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Jan 20, 9:29 PM GMT+13 · 1713 days ago · 10 km deep · 3 km away
14. 4.638 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Jan 20, 6:32 PM GMT+13 · 1713 days ago · 10 km deep · 24 km away
15. 5.029 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Jan 20, 6:32 PM GMT+13 · 1713 days ago · 10 km deep · 33 km away
16. 4.651 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Jan 20, 4:06 PM GMT+13 · 1713 days ago · 10 km deep · 18 km away
17. 4.969 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Jan 20, 12:23 PM GMT+13 · 1713 days ago · 10 km deep · 11 km away
18. 4.667 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Jan 20, 9:18 AM GMT+13 · 1714 days ago · 10 km deep · 18 km away
19. 4.755 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Jan 20, 7:22 AM GMT+13 · 1714 days ago · 10 km deep · 7 km away
20. 4.863 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, TongaThu, Jan 20, 3:38 AM GMT+13 · 1714 days ago · 10 km deep · 23 km away

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000gegr. Read Tue, Sep 29, 2026, 9:40 AM UTC.