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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Neiafu in Tonga


Earthquake location -18.9382S, -172.3247WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 177 km E of Neiafu, Tonga (110 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:16:11 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -172.3247 West, latitude -18.9382 South, depth = 35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/07/20 / 2020-07-12 04:16:11 / July 12, 2020 @ 4:16 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000aqe7. Event ids that are associated: us7000aqe7.

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 seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 177 km E of Neiafu, Tonga.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.3247° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.9382° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 177 km E 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 2020-07-12 04:16:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-18 03:00:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2.272 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us7000aqe7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000aqe7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aqe7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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