Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Houma in Tonga

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 270 km WNW of Houma, Tonga (168 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/24 / 2024-05-14 00:39:01 / May 14, 2024 @ 12:39 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 00:39:01 / 12:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 473.611 km, -177.8371° West, -20.6131° South. Event id: us6000n01y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n01y. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 473.611 km (294 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 270 km WNW of Houma, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.8371° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-20.6131° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	473.611 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	270 km WNW of Houma, Tonga	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-14 00:39:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-02 09:37:18	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	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.524	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us6000n01y	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n01y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n01y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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