Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Nuku`alofa in Tonga

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Nuku`alofa in Tonga. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/02/17 / 2017-02-10 07:18:25 / February 10, 2017 @ 7:18 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -175.1961 West, latitude -21.1055 South, depth = 38.54 km. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:18:25 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008iul. Id of event: us20008iul. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.54 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was ‘Ohonua, Nuku‘alofa. Event epicenter was 4 km (2 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 3 km N of Nuku`alofa, Tonga.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-175.1961° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-21.1055° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km N of Nuku`alofa, Tonga	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-10 07:18:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-10 07:37:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	780	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	416	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	5.347	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	36	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	us20008iul	Id of event.
Event Code	20008iul	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008iul,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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