A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Houma in Tonga. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -175.9884 West, latitude -20.9946 South, depth = 228.235 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:46:03 / 3:46 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/11/25 / 2025-11-15 15:46:03 / November 15, 2025 @ 3:46 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000rngz. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rngz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 228.235 km (142 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nuku‘alofa. Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop). Close country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 73 km WNW of Houma, Tonga.
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