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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Fangale’ounga in Tonga


Earthquake location -18.7974S, -176.1363WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 218 km WNW of Fangale’ounga, Tonga (135 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 293.263 km (182 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/01/25 / 2025-01-29 11:10:23 / January 29, 2025 @ 11:10 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -176.1363 West, latitude -18.7974 South, depth = 293.263 km. Id of earthquake: us7000pbue. Event ids that are associated: us7000pbue. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:10:23 / 11:10 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 218 km WNW of Fangale’ounga, Tonga. This information 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 -176.1363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.7974° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 293.263 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 218 km WNW of Fangale’ounga, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-29 11:10:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-14 15:51:47 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.866 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us7000pbue Id of event.
Event Code 7000pbue An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pbue, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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