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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 146 km W of Neiafu, Tonga

Posted by admin on February 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.5391S, -175.3701WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 146 km W of Neiafu, Tonga (91 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/02/25 / 2025-02-16 09:25:24 / February 16, 2025 @ 9:25 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pe3g. Id of event: us7000pe3g. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 202.368 km, -175.3701° West, -18.5391° South. The temblor was picked up at 09:25:24 / 9:25 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 202.368 km (126 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-eight 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: 146 km W of Neiafu, Tonga. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.3701° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.5391° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 202.368 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 146 km W of Neiafu, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-16 09:25:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-16 09:49:33 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.183 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us7000pe3g Id of event.
Event Code 7000pe3g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pe3g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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