M4.5 earthquake Tonga
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck in Tonga on Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 4:48 AM GMT+13 (15:48 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.0 48 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, 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), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2022-02-14 15:48:16 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 20.861° S, 175.351° 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 6.6 km horizontally, 1.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.24
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 110°
- Stations used
- 19
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 15 in the 60 days after this one and 98 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 5.048 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1687 days ago · 10 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.614 km SSW of Vaini, Tonga · 1683 days ago · 10 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.3110 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1683 days ago · 143 km deep · 82 km away
- 5.031 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1677 days ago · 10 km deep · 3 km away
- 4.844 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1672 days ago · 10 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.663 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1668 days ago · 10 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.196 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1664 days ago · 198 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.956 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1664 days ago · 10 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.7115 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1663 days ago · 212 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.840 km N of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1655 days ago · 10 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.578 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1650 days ago · 72 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.589 km WSW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1646 days ago · 194 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.867 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1644 days ago · 100 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.578 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1642 days ago · 140 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.951 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1629 days ago · 10 km deep · 19 km away
Before
- 4.978 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1690 days ago · 10 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.542 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1692 days ago · 10 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.956 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1692 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.592 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1694 days ago · 10 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.954 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1694 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.666 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1695 days ago · 10 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.761 km NNW of Houma, Tonga · 1695 days ago · 10 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.958 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1696 days ago · 10 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.651 km N of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1698 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
- 5.048 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1698 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.650 km NW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1700 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.750 km NW of Haveluloto, Tonga · 1700 days ago · 10 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.953 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1701 days ago · 10 km deep · 19 km away · felt by 2
- 4.446 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1702 days ago · 10 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.635 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1702 days ago · 10 km deep · 2 km away
- 4.767 km N of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1702 days ago · 10 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.642 km N of Kolonga, Tonga · 1703 days ago · 10 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.968 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1704 days ago · 10 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.942 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga · 1705 days ago · 10 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.533 km SSW of Vaini, Tonga · 1705 days ago · 10 km deep · 68 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000glza. Read Tue, Sep 29, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC.