6.7 megawatt earthquake hits Vava’u | Matangi Tonga

The earthquake site is 6.7Mw northwest of Vava’u on July 2, 2023. Source: CSEM EMSC.

A 6.7 megawatt earthquake woke up sleeping Tongan residents last night at 11:27 PM local time, July 2. It was felt strongly in Vava’u, and more subdued in Ha’apai and Tongatapu.

The epicenter was 143 km northwest of Neiafu and 370 km north of Nuku’alofa, with a depth of 225 km, and a duration of 15 seconds.

The initial size was 6.7 MW, the Tonga Geohazard Unit of the Department of Natural Resources of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources reported today.

Mercalli Intensity is rated “IV, mild shaking without damage.”

However, the earthquake scared the people in Vava’u.

“We heard the rumbling sound of the earthquake from deep within the earth, moments before we felt it,” Dadiana Siasaw of Fungamesi, Niafu, told Matangi Tonga.

“It was a long, strong jolt, it definitely woke the whole island up. Everyone felt it,” she said.

“Water bottles fell off the table, when the house shook, and the sounds of shaking windows were loud. We thought the roof was going to fall. It was so scary we almost ran outside.”

Also, there was a magnitude 5.0 earthquake with a depth of 44 km in Neavo earlier the same day.

At 23:36, the NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu High gave notice that based on all available dates, there was no tsunami risk from the quake.

At 23:40, the Tonga Meteorological Office reported that there was no danger of a tsunami for Tonga and the outer islands from the earthquake.

Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources of Tonga.

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