A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Hihifo in Tonga. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000308w. Unique identifier: us1000308w. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.84 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/15 / 2015-08-07 18:25:20 / August 7, 2015 @ 6:25 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -173.2287 West, latitude -16.3676 South, depth = 9.84 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:25:20 / 6:25 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Hihifo (c. 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hihifo (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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. 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: 72 km SE of Hihifo, Tonga.
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