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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Houma in Tonga


Earthquake location -20.5654S, -175.5735WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Houma in Tonga. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/11/24 / 2024-11-24 13:33:19 / November 24, 2024 @ 1:33 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nxcq. Unique identifier: us7000nxcq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123.47 km (77 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:33:19 / 1:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 123.47 km, -175.5735° West, -20.5654° South.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nuku‘alofa. Country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km NNW of Houma, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.5735° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.5654° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72 km NNW 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 2024-11-24 13:33:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-15 17:40:57 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.518 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us7000nxcq Id of event.
Event Code 7000nxcq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nxcq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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