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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Hihifo in Tonga

Posted by admin on May 17, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.4016S, -173.1313WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 89 km NE of Hihifo, Tonga (55 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:20:56 / 9:20 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/05/17 / 2017-05-03 21:20:56 / May 3, 2017 @ 9:20 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008qws. Id of event: us10008qws. Exact location of earthquake, -173.1313° West, -15.4016° South, depth 38.54 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.54 km (24 miles).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 89 km NE of Hihifo, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.1313° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.4016° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km NE 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 2017-05-03 21:20:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-17 04:20:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 271 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 1.979 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us10008qws Id of event.
Event Code 10008qws An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008qws, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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