Strong earthquake, 6.9 mag strikes near Neiafu in Tonga

A earthquake magnitude 6.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 131 kilometers (81 miles) from Neiafu in Tonga. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19308001, at00q0gv4p. Id of event: at00q0gv4p. A tsunami warning has been issued near Neiafu in Tonga (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -175.2° West, -18.4° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/11/19 / 2019-11-04 22:43:37 / November 4, 2019 @ 10:43 pm. The temblor was picked up at 10:43:37 / 10:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 131 km (82 miles) from Neiafu (c. 4 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Neiafu. Close country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 131 km WNW of Neiafu, Tonga. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-175.2° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.4° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	131km WNW of Neiafu, Tonga	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-04 22:43:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-04 22:54:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	REVIEWED	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	1	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	732	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165.599986752	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00q0gv4p	Id of event.
Event Code	00q0gv4p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt19308001,at00q0gv4p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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