Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 267 km WNW of Houma, Tonga

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 267 km WNW of Houma, Tonga (166 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:37:53 / 7:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.5873 West, latitude -20.0616 South, depth = 491.968 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 491.968 km (306 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/07/24 / 2024-07-30 07:37:53 / July 30, 2024 @ 7:37 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ngun. Id of event: us6000ngun.

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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 267 km WNW of Houma, Tonga.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.5873° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-20.0616° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	491.968 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	267 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	2024-07-30 07:37:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-30 13:43:09	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	312	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	69	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.49	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59	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	us6000ngun	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ngun	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ngun,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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