Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Houma in Tonga

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 280 km WNW of Houma, Tonga (174 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -177.6966 West, latitude -20.0048 South, depth = 479.375 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 479.375 km (298 miles). Global time and date of event 15/04/25 / 2025-04-15 13:19:53 / April 15, 2025 @ 1:19 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pw4w. Unique identifier: us7000pw4w. The temblor was detected at 13:19:53 / 1:19 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 280 km WNW of Houma, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.6966° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-20.0048° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	479.375 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	280 km WNW of Houma, Tonga	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-15 13:19:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-08 16:50:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	271	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	7.384	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	95	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pw4w	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pw4w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pw4w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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