Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Vaini in Tonga

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 214 km SSW of Vaini, Tonga (133 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.43 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -176.1502° West, -22.9196° South, depth 52.43 km. Global time and date of event 20/12/19 / 2019-12-20 07:55:59 / December 20, 2019 @ 7:55 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70006wzd. Event ids that are associated: us70006wzd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 19:55:59 / 7:55 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 214 km SSW of Vaini, Tonga.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-176.1502° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-22.9196° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	214km SSW of Vaini, Tonga	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-20 07:55:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-12 07:31:09	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	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	354	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	,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	6.957	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70006wzd	Id of event.
Event Code	70006wzd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006wzd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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