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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Neiafu in Tonga


Earthquake location -18.0692S, -174.1641WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Neiafu in Tonga on Friday. Global time and date of event 07/08/15 / 2015-08-07 14:22:14 / August 7, 2015 @ 2:22 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -174.1641 West, latitude -18.0692 South, depth = 26.36 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.36 km (16 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000304i. Unique identifier: us1000304i. The temblor was reported at 02:22:14 / 2:22 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Neiafu (c. 4 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Neiafu (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 67 km NNW of Neiafu, Tonga.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.1641° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.0692° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km NNW of Neiafu, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-07 14:22:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-07 14:43:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 432 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.141 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us1000304i Id of event.
Event Code 1000304i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000304i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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