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Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Hihifo in Tonga

Posted by admin on October 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -16.2437S, -173.2067WA earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Hihifo in Tonga. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -173.2067 West, latitude -16.2437 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003pie. Id of event: us10003pie. Global time and date of event 18/10/15 / 2015-10-18 16:18:34 / October 18, 2015 @ 4:18 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred 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). The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:18:34 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hihifo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Hihifo (c. 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 fourty-three 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 66 km ESE of Hihifo, Tonga.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.2067° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.2437° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km ESE of Hihifo, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-18 16:18:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-18 16:49:16 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 4.59 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 554 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 4.208 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10003pie Id of event.
Event Code 10003pie An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003pie, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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