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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Nuku‘alofa in Tonga


Earthquake location -20.2174S, -175.5978WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 109 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga (68 miles) on Thursday. Unique identifier: us6000n8n3. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000n8n3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -175.5978 West, latitude -20.2174 South, depth = 195.358 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 195.358 km (121 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/06/24 / 2024-06-20 00:26:14 / June 20, 2024 @ 12:26 am. The temblor was reported at 00:26:14 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 109 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.5978° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.2174° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 195.358 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 109 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-20 00:26:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-08 04:21:52 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.017 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us6000n8n3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000n8n3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n8n3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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