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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 66 km ESE of `Ohonua, Tonga


Earthquake location -21.5012S, -174.3383WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from `Ohonua in Tonga. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g3nt. Id of event: us2000g3nt. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/07/18 / 2018-07-13 03:13:33 / July 13, 2018 @ 3:13 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:13:33 / 3:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -174.3383 West, latitude -21.5012 South, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nuku‘alofa, ‘Ohonua. Close country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 66 km ESE of `Ohonua, Tonga.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.3383° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.5012° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km ESE of `Ohonua, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-13 03:13:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-13 03:32:41 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 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 7.934 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us2000g3nt Id of event.
Event Code 2000g3nt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g3nt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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