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Magnitude 4.7 TONGA REGION
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at 20:23:57 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

World Location

Regional Location

Magnitude 4.7
Date-Time Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at 20:23:57 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 08:23:57 AM local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 22.02S 175.74W
Depth 135 kilometers
Region TONGA REGION
Reference 110 km (70 miles) SSW of NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga
340 km (210 miles) ESE of Ndoi Island, Fiji
415 km (260 miles) SSW of Neiafu, Tonga
1890 km (1170 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand
Location Quality Error estimate: horizontal +/- 22.7 km; depth +/- 81.6 km
Location Quality
Parameters
Nst=32, Nph=32, Dmin=1924.6 km, Rmss=1.55 sec, Erho=22.7 km, Erzz=81.6 km, Gp=119.1 degrees
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

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