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Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag strikes near Hihifo in Tonga

Posted by admin on July 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.2759S, -172.6486WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) strikes 144 km ENE of Hihifo, Tonga (89 miles) on Saturday. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:32:35 / 3:32 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/20 / 2020-07-18 15:32:35 / July 18, 2020 @ 3:32 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Hihifo in Tonga (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000aqwd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00qdo8ij, us7000aqwd, pt20200001. Exact location, longitude -172.6486° West, latitude -15.2759° South, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. 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: 144 km ENE of Hihifo, Tonga.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.6486° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.2759° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 144 km ENE 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 2020-07-18 15:32:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-18 15:52:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 1 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 592 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 ,at,us,pt, 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 1.597 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us7000aqwd Id of event.
Event Code 7000aqwd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qdo8ij,us7000aqwd,pt20200001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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