A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 214 km SSW of ‘Ohonua, Tonga (133 miles). Global time and date of event 31/08/25 / 2025-08-31 00:34:35 / August 31, 2025 @ 12:34 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rcku. Unique identifier: us6000rcku. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 00:34:35 / 12:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -175.4845 West, latitude -23.2131 South, depth = 35 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 214 km SSW of ‘Ohonua, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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