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Moderate earthquake 5.8 mag, 65 km NE of Hihifo, Tonga

Posted by admin on October 31, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.5309S, -173.3206WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Hihifo in Tonga. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -173.3206 West, latitude -15.5309 South, depth = 35 km. Event id: us1000aywi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt17304002, us1000aywi. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/10/17 / 2017-10-31 04:58:58 / October 31, 2017 @ 4:58 am. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:58:58 / 4:58 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close 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. The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Hihifo (c. 800 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-nine 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. 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: 65 km NE of Hihifo, Tonga.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.3206° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.5309° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2017-10-31 04:58:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-31 05:22:03 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 4.21 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 518 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 ,pt,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 20.221 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us1000aywi Id of event.
Event Code 1000aywi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt17304002,us1000aywi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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