A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Pangai in Tonga. All ids that are associated to the event: us20002ztj. Unique identifier: us20002ztj. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 105.18 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -174.1109 West, latitude -20.5168 South, depth = 105.18 km. The temblor was detected at 00:41:34 / 12:41 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/15 / 2015-07-06 12:41:34 / July 6, 2015 @ 12:41 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pangai (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 83 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga.
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