A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Hihifo in Tonga. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/02/16 / 2016-02-18 20:24:06 / February 18, 2016 @ 8:24 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004rrl. Id of event: us10004rrl. The temblor was reported at 08:24:06 / 8:24 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.05 km (7 miles). Exact location, longitude -173.1868° West, latitude -16.288° South, depth = 11.05 km.
Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Hihifo (c. 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hihifo.
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 70 km ESE of Hihifo, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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