M4.5 earthquake 261 km WNW of Houma, Tonga
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 261 km WNW of Houma, Tonga on Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 3:40 PM GMT+13 (02:40 UTC), 501 km (312 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.9 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
- 4.5 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2024-08-15 02:40:21 UTC
- Depth
- 501.5 km (311.6 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 20.333° S, 177.649° 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 11.0 km horizontally, 7.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.07
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 57°
- Stations used
- 64
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 26 in the 60 days after this one and 12 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.4Fiji region · 770 days ago · 575 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.1279 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 770 days ago · 536 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 770 days ago · 564 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.1278 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 769 days ago · 495 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.3277 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 769 days ago · 488 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.4288 km NW of Houma, Tonga · 768 days ago · 549 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 1
- 4.1287 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 759 days ago · 548 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.1270 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 759 days ago · 519 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.1281 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 755 days ago · 484 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.4285 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 752 days ago · 547 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.3283 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 749 days ago · 521 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.2262 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 747 days ago · 530 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.0275 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 747 days ago · 488 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 747 days ago · 555 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.0253 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 744 days ago · 480 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 742 days ago · 598 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 741 days ago · 568 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.2284 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 741 days ago · 554 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.9Fiji region · 740 days ago · 543 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.0271 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 738 days ago · 514 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.0273 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 738 days ago · 477 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.0262 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 737 days ago · 526 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 730 days ago · 543 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.0276 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 729 days ago · 513 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.2287 km W of Houma, Tonga · 729 days ago · 481 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 724 days ago · 435 km deep · 76 km away
Before
- 4.1256 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 779 days ago · 558 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 780 days ago · 556 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 782 days ago · 560 km deep · 95 km away
- 5.0252 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 785 days ago · 462 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 786 days ago · 626 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.4254 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 787 days ago · 484 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.2296 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 792 days ago · 479 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.5265 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 794 days ago · 492 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.0275 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 797 days ago · 495 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.6276 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 800 days ago · 537 km deep · 28 km away · felt by 1
- 4.0278 km W of Houma, Tonga · 803 days ago · 482 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.2254 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 807 days ago · 484 km deep · 15 km away
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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000n737. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC.