A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Neiafu in Tonga. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/02/18 / 2018-02-02 10:22:05 / February 2, 2018 @ 10:22 am. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:22:05 / 10:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -173.5368 West, latitude -18.5066 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000ce8z. Event ids that are associated: us1000ce8z. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Neiafu. Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Neiafu (c. 4 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 49 km ENE of Neiafu, Tonga.
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