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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Hihifo in Tonga


Earthquake location -16.4483S, -174.0726WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Hihifo in Tonga. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/09/20 / 2020-09-22 03:33:39 / September 22, 2020 @ 3:33 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000c17e. Event ids that are associated: us6000c17e. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 77.01 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:33:39 / 3:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -174.0726 West, latitude -16.4483 South, depth = 77.01 km.

Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Hihifo (c. 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hihifo (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 62 km SSW of Hihifo, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.0726° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.4483° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 km SSW 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 2020-09-22 03:33:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-08 02:09:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 3.356 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 82 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 us6000c17e Id of event.
Event Code 6000c17e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c17e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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