A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Houma in Tonga. Exact location, longitude -175.6355° West, latitude -20.6423° South, depth = 10 km. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:00:39 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/06/24 / 2024-06-28 13:00:39 / June 28, 2024 @ 1:00 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000n8vk. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000n8vk.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was ‘Ohonua, Nuku‘alofa.
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 67 km NNW of Houma, Tonga. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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