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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Nuku`alofa in Tonga

Posted by admin on January 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.5015S, -174.9318WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Nuku`alofa in Tonga. The epicenter was at a depth of 60.03 km (37 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 60.03 km, -174.9318° West, -20.5015° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006xtl. Id of event: us70006xtl. The temblor was reported at 08:16:49 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/12/19 / 2019-12-25 20:16:49 / December 25, 2019 @ 8:16 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangai, ‘Ohonua, Nuku‘alofa (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 75 km NNE of Nuku`alofa, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.9318° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.5015° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km NNE of Nuku`alofa, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-25 20:16:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 20:08:43 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 4.921 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us70006xtl Id of event.
Event Code 70006xtl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006xtl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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