Strong earthquake 6 mag, 164 km WNW of Hihifo, Tonga

A earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was reported 164 km WNW of Hihifo, Tonga (102 miles) on Friday. The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:04:46 / 1:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19340000, us60006n19. Id of event: us60006n19. Exact location of earthquake, -175.1193° West, -15.2838° South, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/19 / 2019-12-06 13:04:46 / December 6, 2019 @ 1:04 pm.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 164 km WNW of Hihifo, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-175.1193° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.2838° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	164km WNW of Hihifo, Tonga	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-06 13:04:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-06 13:30:24	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	4.218	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	0	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	554	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.512	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us60006n19	Id of event.
Event Code	60006n19	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt19340000,us60006n19,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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