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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Neiafu in Tonga


Earthquake location -19.0803S, -174.3243WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Neiafu in Tonga. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000kbwq. Id of event: us2000kbwq. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/04/19 / 2019-04-07 19:14:59 / April 7, 2019 @ 7:14 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.67 km (12 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:14:59 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 19.67 km, -174.3243° West, -19.0803° South.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Neiafu (c. 4 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangai, Neiafu (min 5000 pop).

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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 59 km SW of Neiafu, Tonga. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.3243° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.0803° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km SW 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 2019-04-07 19:14:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-07 19:48:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 417 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 4.158 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000kbwq Id of event.
Event Code 2000kbwq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kbwq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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