Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 262 km WNW of Houma, Tonga

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 262 km WNW of Houma, Tonga (163 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 532.391 km (331 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 04:24:35 / 4:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -177.4351° West, -19.9046° South, depth 532.391 km. Id of earthquake: us7000pmiy. Event ids that are associated: us7000pmiy. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/03/25 / 2025-03-16 04:24:35 / March 16, 2025 @ 4:24 am.

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 three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 262 km WNW of Houma, Tonga.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.4351° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-19.9046° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	532.391 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	262 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	2025-03-16 04:24:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-25 22:28:40	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	298	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.565	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	116	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	us7000pmiy	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pmiy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pmiy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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