A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Vaini in Tonga. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -175.3033 West, latitude -21.6435 South, depth = 66.3 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 66.3 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 06:02:03 / 6:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/04/20 / 2020-04-06 18:02:03 / April 6, 2020 @ 6:02 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008q1c. Unique identifier: us70008q1c.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nuku‘alofa, ‘Ohonua (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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: 50 km SSW of Vaini, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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