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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Neiafu in Tonga


Earthquake location -18.6407S, -174.5715WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Neiafu in Tonga. Id of earthquake: us2000fsjd. Event ids that are associated: us2000fsjd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/06/18 / 2018-06-30 21:01:24 / June 30, 2018 @ 9:01 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.92 km (33 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:01:24 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -174.5715 West, latitude -18.6407 South, depth = 52.92 km.

The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Neiafu (c. 4 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Neiafu (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 thirty-six 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.

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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: 62 km W of Neiafu, Tonga.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.5715° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.6407° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km W 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 2018-06-30 21:01:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-30 21:26:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 780 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 369 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 4.419 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us2000fsjd Id of event.
Event Code 2000fsjd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fsjd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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