A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Hihifo in Tonga. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000elss. Unique identifier: us1000elss. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:13:41 / 4:13 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/06/18 / 2018-06-09 04:13:41 / June 9, 2018 @ 4:13 am. Exact location of earthquake, -173.497° West, -15.0824° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Event epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Hihifo (c. 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hihifo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-eight 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: 99 km NNE of Hihifo, Tonga.
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