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Moderate earthquake 5.9 mag, 285 km WSW of Houma, Tonga

Posted by admin on June 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.0676S, -177.8829WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 285 km WSW of Houma, Tonga (177 miles). The 5.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:28:31 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -177.8829 West, latitude -22.0676 South, depth = 364.549 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/06/25 / 2025-06-06 19:28:31 / June 6, 2025 @ 7:28 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qiig. Unique identifier: us6000qiig. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 364.549 km (227 miles).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 285 km WSW of Houma, Tonga. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8829° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.0676° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 364.549 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 285 km WSW of Houma, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-06 19:28:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-06 19:47:31 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 536 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 157 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.754 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000qiig Id of event.
Event Code 6000qiig An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qiig, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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