Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Houma in Tonga

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 289 km NW of Houma, Tonga (180 miles). The temblor was picked up at 15:54:49 / 3:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -177.5105 West, latitude -19.5953 South, depth = 554.958 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/08/24 / 2024-08-25 15:54:49 / August 25, 2024 @ 3:54 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000n9c7. Event ids that are associated: us7000n9c7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 554.958 km (345 miles).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 289 km NW of Houma, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.5105° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-19.5953° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	554.958 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	289 km NW 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	2024-08-25 15:54:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-25 16:51:09	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	298	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.671	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us7000n9c7	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n9c7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n9c7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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