A 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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