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USGS us7000gc8r

15 Jan 2022, 04:14

68 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga

A magnitude 5.8 ms_20 earthquake at 0 km depth.

Depth0 kmPublished hypocentral depth
Tsunami flagFlaggedUSGS catalog flag, not a current warning
Updated15 November 2022Latest timestamp stored in this record

Published location

Where is 68 km NNW of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga?

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-20.546000, -175.390000

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Catalog fields and provenance
Event ID
us7000gc8r
Coordinates
-20.546, -175.39
Network
us
Significance
530