A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Vaini in Tonga on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 23:47:51 / 11:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -175.8232 West, latitude -21.6596 South, depth = 52.03 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200066is. Id of event: us200066is. 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 52.03 km (32 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/06/16 / 2016-06-20 11:47:51 / June 20, 2016 @ 11:47 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was ‘Ohonua, Nuku‘alofa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 82 km SW of Vaini, Tonga.
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