A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 177 km NW of Neiafu, Tonga (110 miles) on Thursday. Unique identifier: us600055zt. Ids that are associated to the event: us600055zt. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/08/19 / 2019-08-09 07:41:28 / August 9, 2019 @ 7:41 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 226.57 km (141 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -175.1475 West, latitude -17.4956 South, depth = 226.57 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:41:28 / 7:41 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 177 km NW of Neiafu, Tonga.
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