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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near `Ohonua in Tonga


Earthquake location -21.5384S, -174.2926WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 71 kilometers (44 miles) from `Ohonua in Tonga on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -174.2926° West, -21.5384° South. The temblor was detected at 22:46:55 / 10:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/06/15 / 2015-06-30 10:46:55 / June 30, 2015 @ 10:46 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002mje. Id of event: us10002mje.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nuku‘alofa, ‘Ohonua. Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 104 km (65 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 71 km ESE of `Ohonua, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.2926° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.5384° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km ESE of `Ohonua, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-30 10:46:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-30 11:29:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 432 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 8.347 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us10002mje Id of event.
Event Code 10002mje An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mje, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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