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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Hihifo in Tonga

Posted by admin on August 14, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -16.0423S, -173.3821WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Hihifo in Tonga. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/08/25 / 2025-08-14 09:50:45 / August 14, 2025 @ 9:50 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 09:50:45 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -173.3821° West, -16.0423° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r0nc. Unique identifier: us6000r0nc.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hihifo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Hihifo (c. 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 45 km ESE of Hihifo, Tonga.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.3821° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.0423° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45 km ESE of Hihifo, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-14 09:50:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-14 11:58:53 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 354 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.254 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us6000r0nc Id of event.
Event Code 6000r0nc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r0nc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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