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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 91 km W of Neiafu, Tonga


Earthquake location -18.6417S, -174.8552WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Neiafu in Tonga. The temblor was detected at 01:49:45 / 1:49 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/05/20 / 2020-05-17 13:49:45 / May 17, 2020 @ 1:49 pm. Event id: us70009ixd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009ixd. Exact location of event, longitude -174.8552 West, latitude -18.6417 South, depth = 131.95 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 131.95 km (82 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Neiafu. Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Neiafu (c. 4 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km W of Neiafu, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.8552° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.6417° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 131.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km 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 2020-05-17 13:49:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-17 14:08:41 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 385 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 4.686 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us70009ixd Id of event.
Event Code 70009ixd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009ixd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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