M4.5 earthquake 292 km WNW of Houma, Tonga
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 292 km WNW of Houma, Tonga on Thu, May 8, 2025, 9:58 PM GMT+13 (08:58 UTC), 496 km (308 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 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
- 2025-05-08 08:58:59 UTC
- Depth
- 496.3 km (308.4 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 20.434° S, 177.999° 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 14.5 km horizontally, 6.2 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.08
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 117°
- Stations used
- 57
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 27 in the 60 days after this one and 11 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.6Fiji region · 511 days ago · 623 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.5279 km W of Houma, Tonga · 511 days ago · 499 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 510 days ago · 619 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 507 days ago · 498 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.5258 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 506 days ago · 513 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.4259 km W of Houma, Tonga · 506 days ago · 478 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.1293 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 506 days ago · 597 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.4271 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 503 days ago · 504 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.5279 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 501 days ago · 537 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.4239 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 500 days ago · 502 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 497 days ago · 598 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.0292 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 497 days ago · 515 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.0272 km W of Houma, Tonga · 493 days ago · 425 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.4268 km NW of Houma, Tonga · 493 days ago · 361 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.2274 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 490 days ago · 503 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.1283 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 487 days ago · 401 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.3274 km W of Houma, Tonga · 482 days ago · 497 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.1295 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 482 days ago · 554 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.0284 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 482 days ago · 497 km deep · 9 km away
- 4.3275 km W of Houma, Tonga · 481 days ago · 433 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 479 days ago · 549 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.3289 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 478 days ago · 529 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 466 days ago · 583 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.7Fiji region · 463 days ago · 625 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.0Fiji region · 463 days ago · 607 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 463 days ago · 622 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.1294 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 456 days ago · 576 km deep · 50 km away
Before
- 4.5Fiji region · 513 days ago · 577 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.2299 km W of Houma, Tonga · 516 days ago · 480 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 522 days ago · 600 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.1281 km W of Houma, Tonga · 534 days ago · 464 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.4272 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 534 days ago · 510 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.2280 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 536 days ago · 479 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.3274 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 539 days ago · 545 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 539 days ago · 551 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 540 days ago · 575 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.1286 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 541 days ago · 523 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 542 days ago · 565 km deep · 41 km away
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