A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Houma in Tonga. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/08/24 / 2024-08-29 17:36:40 / August 29, 2024 @ 5:36 pm. The temblor was detected at 17:36:40 / 5:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 142.563 km (89 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nnir. Unique identifier: us6000nnir. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -175.9979 West, latitude -21.606 South, depth = 142.563 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (61 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nuku‘alofa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop).
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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 86 km WSW of Houma, Tonga. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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