Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Hihifo in Tonga

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 260 km SE of Hihifo, Tonga (162 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 18.99 km (12 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/02/16 / 2016-02-14 07:10:45 / February 14, 2016 @ 7:10 am. Id of earthquake: us2000502w. Event ids that are associated: us2000502w. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -171.8211 West, latitude -17.3955 South, depth = 18.99 km. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:10:45 / 8:10 pm (local time epicenter).

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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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: 260 km SE of Hihifo, Tonga. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-171.8211° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.3955° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	260km SE of Hihifo, Tonga	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-14 07:10:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-14 07:40:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	432	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	2.456	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	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	us2000502w	Id of event.
Event Code	2000502w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000502w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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