A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Houma in Tonga. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 138.594 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -175.7362 West, latitude -21.1217 South, depth = 138.594 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:30:37 / 9:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/05/25 / 2025-05-30 21:30:37 / May 30, 2025 @ 9:30 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qgzn. Id of event: us6000qgzn.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was ‘Ohonua, Nuku‘alofa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km W of Houma, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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