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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Havelu in Tonga


Earthquake location -21.2086S, -175.6911WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Havelu in Tonga on Wednesday. Event id: us2000iv82. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iv82. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -175.6911 West, latitude -21.2086 South, depth = 117.21 km. Global time and date of event 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 04:00:37 / December 20, 2018 @ 4:00 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 16:00:37 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 117.21 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was ‘Ohonua, Nuku‘alofa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 49 km W of Havelu, Tonga. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.6911° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.2086° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km W of Havelu, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-20 04:00:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-20 04:16:57 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 354 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 5.815 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us2000iv82 Id of event.
Event Code 2000iv82 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iv82, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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