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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Hihifo in Tonga

Posted by admin on January 12, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -16.4093S, -174.3303WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Hihifo in Tonga on Friday. Event id: us2000ciun. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ciun. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 138.67 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -174.3303° West, -16.4093° South, depth 138.67 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:00:04 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/01/18 / 2018-01-12 13:00:04 / January 12, 2018 @ 1:00 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Hihifo (c. 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hihifo (min 5000 pop).

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 five and in the last 365 days fourty-one 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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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 80 km SW of Hihifo, Tonga.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.3303° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.4093° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 138.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km SW 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 2018-01-12 13:00:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-12 13:19:49 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 385 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 3.5 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us2000ciun Id of event.
Event Code 2000ciun An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ciun, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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