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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Hihifo in Tonga


Earthquake location -17.1907S, -172.0766WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 225 km SE of Hihifo, Tonga (140 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/04/20 / 2020-04-16 16:48:51 / April 16, 2020 @ 4:48 pm. The temblor was reported at 05:48:51 / 5:48 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 42.33 km (26 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us60009apd. Unique identifier: us60009apd. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -172.0766 West, latitude -17.1907 South, depth = 42.33 km.

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 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 225 km SE of Hihifo, Tonga. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.0766° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.1907° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 225km SE 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 2020-04-16 16:48:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-14 21:29:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 271 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 2.773 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us60009apd Id of event.
Event Code 60009apd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009apd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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