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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near `Ohonua in Tonga


Earthquake location -21.7904S, -174.6121WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from `Ohonua in Tonga. Exact location of event, longitude -174.6121 West, latitude -21.7904 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 18:49:28 / December 17, 2016 @ 6:49 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008206. Unique identifier: us20008206. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:49:28 / 6:49 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nuku‘alofa, ‘Ohonua. Epicenter of the event was 95 km (59 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 61 km SE of `Ohonua, Tonga. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.6121° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.7904° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km SE 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 2016-12-17 18:49:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-17 19:44:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 416 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 5.156 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us20008206 Id of event.
Event Code 20008206 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008206, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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