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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Neiafu in Tonga

Posted by admin on August 15, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.4194S, -173.8539WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 136 km N of Neiafu, Tonga (85 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -173.8539 West, latitude -17.4194 South, depth = 60.24 km. Unique identifier: us100032ma. Ids that are associated to the event: us100032ma. The temblor was picked up at 09:01:50 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 21:01:50 / August 15, 2015 @ 9:01 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.24 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 136 km N of Neiafu, Tonga.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.8539° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.4194° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 136km N 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 2015-08-15 21:01:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-15 21:31:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 340 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 4.079 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us100032ma Id of event.
Event Code 100032ma An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032ma, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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