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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near ‘Ohonua in Tonga

Posted by admin on May 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.0592S, -173.8333WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 120 km ENE of ‘Ohonua, Tonga (75 miles) on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 06/05/25 / 2025-05-06 09:43:22 / May 6, 2025 @ 9:43 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -173.8333° West, -21.0592° South, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 09:43:22 / 9:43 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000pxgl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pxgl.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 120 km ENE of ‘Ohonua, Tonga.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.8333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.0592° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 120 km ENE of ‘Ohonua, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-06 09:43:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-06 10:23:59 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 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.168 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us7000pxgl Id of event.
Event Code 7000pxgl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pxgl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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