A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from `Ohonua in Tonga. Id of earthquake: us2000j8vn. Event ids that are associated: us2000j8vn. Exact location of event, longitude -174.5552 West, latitude -21.8016 South, depth = 35 km. The temblor was detected at 14:29:01 / 2:29 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/19 / 2019-01-11 02:29:01 / January 11, 2019 @ 2:29 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nuku‘alofa, ‘Ohonua. Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km SE of `Ohonua, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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