Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 126 km E of Neiafu, Tonga

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 126 km E of Neiafu, Tonga (78 miles) on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -172.7872° West, -18.746° South, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000n9mt. Event ids that are associated: us6000n9mt. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:10:03 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 24/06/24 / 2024-06-24 21:10:03 / June 24, 2024 @ 9:10 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-172.7872° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.746° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	126 km E of Neiafu, Tonga	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-06-24 21:10:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-04 04:34:26	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	326	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.727	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.13 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	us6000n9mt	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n9mt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n9mt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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