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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Pangai in Tonga


Earthquake location -19.8237S, -175.4585WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 116 km W of Pangai, Tonga (72 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/05/16 / 2016-05-26 23:39:39 / May 26, 2016 @ 11:39 pm. The temblor was detected at 11:39:39 / 11:39 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005zkp. Unique identifier: us20005zkp. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -175.4585 West, latitude -19.8237 South, depth = 212.78 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 212.78 km (132 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 116 km W of Pangai, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.4585° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.8237° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 212.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116km W of Pangai, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-26 23:39:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-11 03:03:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 284 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.271 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005zkp Id of event.
Event Code 20005zkp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005zkp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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