A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Neiafu in Tonga. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:17:56 / 9:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -173.4774° West, -18.4989° South, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/04/16 / 2016-04-09 09:17:56 / April 9, 2016 @ 9:17 am. Event id: us20005ijr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005ijr.
Close country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Neiafu (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Neiafu (c. 4 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km ENE of Neiafu, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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