A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 96 kilometers (60 miles) from `Ohonua in Tonga on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -175.5047 West, latitude -22.0369 South, depth = 10 km. 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: us1000jbts. Unique identifier: us1000jbts. The temblor was reported at 22:59:25 / 10:59 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 07/03/19 / 2019-03-07 10:59:25 / March 7, 2019 @ 10:59 am UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was ‘Ohonua (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop).
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-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 96 km SW of `Ohonua, Tonga.
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