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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Houma in Tonga

Posted by admin on August 2, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.9295S, -176.7685WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 154 km W of Houma, Tonga (96 miles) on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -176.7685 West, latitude -20.9295 South, depth = 228.094 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:37:08 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000nhi9. Event ids that are associated: us6000nhi9. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 228.094 km (142 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/24 / 2024-08-02 06:37:08 / August 2, 2024 @ 6:37 am.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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: 154 km W of Houma, Tonga.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.7685° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.9295° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 228.094 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 154 km W 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 2024-08-02 06:37:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-02 06:54:51 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 385 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.481 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us6000nhi9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nhi9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nhi9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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