A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes South of Tonga (0 miles) on Thursday. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:50:45 / 7:50 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000j8uh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j8uh. Exact location, longitude -175.755° West, latitude -26.7845° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/01/19 / 2019-01-10 19:50:45 / January 10, 2019 @ 7:50 pm.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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