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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 210 km ENE of Neiafu, Tonga


Earthquake location -17.9985S, -172.1121WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 210 km ENE of Neiafu, Tonga (130 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.27 km (24 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -172.1121 West, latitude -17.9985 South, depth = 38.27 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/01/17 / 2017-01-01 03:46:35 / January 1, 2017 @ 3:46 am. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:46:35 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007u3k. Id of event: us10007u3k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 210 km ENE of Neiafu, Tonga.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.1121° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9985° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 210km ENE 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 2017-01-01 03:46:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-22 00:53:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us10007u3k Id of event.
Event Code 10007u3k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007u3k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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