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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Hihifo in Tonga


Earthquake location -15.209S, -173.6229WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Hihifo in Tonga. The temblor was detected at 02:32:59 / 2:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -173.6229° West, latitude -15.209° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: us20004v2t. Unique identifier: us20004v2t. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/01/16 / 2016-01-22 14:32:59 / January 22, 2016 @ 2:32 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hihifo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Hihifo (c. 800 pop).

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

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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 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: 83 km N of Hihifo, Tonga.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.6229° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.209° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km N of Hihifo, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-22 14:32:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-05 09:36:32 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 284 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 5.222 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us20004v2t Id of event.
Event Code 20004v2t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004v2t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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