M4.3 earthquake 272 km WNW of Houma, Tonga
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 272 km WNW of Houma, Tonga on Sun, Feb 22, 2026, 5:33 AM GMT+13 (16:33 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 243 km WNW of Houma, Tonga. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.3 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2026-02-21 16:33:40 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 19.840° S, 177.500° 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 9.2 km horizontally, 1.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.22
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 155°
- Stations used
- 11
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 9 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.7243 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 222 days ago · 378 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.1290 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 219 days ago · 508 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.1293 km NW of Houma, Tonga · 219 days ago · 567 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.4273 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 218 days ago · 503 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.1294 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 218 days ago · 561 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.3268 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 217 days ago · 539 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.3294 km NW of Houma, Tonga · 210 days ago · 570 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.7259 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 208 days ago · 552 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.4263 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 208 days ago · 529 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.3256 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 203 days ago · 518 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.1267 km NW of Houma, Tonga · 202 days ago · 370 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.2282 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 201 days ago · 541 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.2293 km NW of Houma, Tonga · 201 days ago · 543 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.5Fiji region · 199 days ago · 572 km deep · 56 km away · felt by 2
- 4.1281 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 199 days ago · 553 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.3287 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 196 days ago · 515 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 193 days ago · 571 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 192 days ago · 617 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 187 days ago · 546 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.5291 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 186 days ago · 520 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.6247 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 185 days ago · 544 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 179 days ago · 534 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 179 days ago · 568 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.0272 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 172 days ago · 550 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.6289 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 171 days ago · 546 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.0281 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 170 days ago · 509 km deep · 63 km away
Before
- 4.1268 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 230 days ago · 611 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 231 days ago · 601 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 231 days ago · 597 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 237 days ago · 561 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.3273 km NW of Houma, Tonga · 237 days ago · 358 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.4295 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 243 days ago · 508 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.4269 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 245 days ago · 533 km deep · 9 km away
- 4.5186 km WNW of Houma, Tonga · 250 days ago · 270 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.6Fiji region · 252 days ago · 597 km deep · 86 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000s2jv. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 4:58 PM UTC.