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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Neiafu in Tonga

Posted by admin on May 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.5867S, -174.3942WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 125 km NNW of Neiafu, Tonga (78 miles) on Saturday. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:56:19 / 8:56 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 93.421 km (58 miles). Exact location, longitude -174.3942° West, latitude -17.5867° South, depth = 93.421 km. Id of earthquake: us7000pzw8. Event ids that are associated: us7000pzw8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/05/25 / 2025-05-17 20:56:19 / May 17, 2025 @ 8:56 pm.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 125 km NNW of Neiafu, Tonga.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.3942° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.5867° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93.421 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 125 km NNW 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 2025-05-17 20:56:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-17 21:15:08 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 340 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 4.438 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us7000pzw8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pzw8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pzw8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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