A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 123 km WSW of Neiafu, Tonga (76 miles). Global time and date of event 12/04/19 / 2019-04-12 03:48:00 / April 12, 2019 @ 3:48 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -175.124 West, latitude -18.9209 South, depth = 233.72 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: us700038k1. Unique identifier: us700038k1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 233.72 km (145 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:48:00 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter).
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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 123 km WSW of Neiafu, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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