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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 283 km WNW of Houma, Tonga


Earthquake location -20.1606S, -177.8022WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 283 km WNW of Houma, Tonga (176 miles). Event id: us6000myzx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000myzx. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 486.455 km (302 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/05/24 / 2024-05-10 17:53:07 / May 10, 2024 @ 5:53 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -177.8022 West, latitude -20.1606 South, depth = 486.455 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:53:07 / 5:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 283 km WNW of Houma, Tonga.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8022° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1606° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 486.455 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 283 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 2024-05-10 17:53:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-05 15:50:25 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 259 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.633 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us6000myzx Id of event.
Event Code 6000myzx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000myzx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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