Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag was detected near Mata-Utu in Wallis and Futuna

A earthquake with magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) was reported 167 km SSE of Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna (104 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 324 km (201 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/07/25 / 2025-07-24 23:37:55 / July 24, 2025 @ 11:37 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Mata-Utu in Wallis and Futuna (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: at00szxgb7. Ids that are associated to the event: pt25205003, at00szxgb7. The 6.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:37:55 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -175.786° West, latitude -14.747° South, depth = 324 km.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 167 km SSE of Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-175.786° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.747° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	324 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	167 km SSE of Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-24 23:37:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-24 23:47:23	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	1	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	670	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.968757	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111.599991072	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00szxgb7	Id of event.
Event Code	00szxgb7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt25205003,at00szxgb7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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