Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9

Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Pangai in Tonga

Posted by admin on December 19, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.503S, -173.9329WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Pangai in Tonga. Exact location of earthquake, -173.9329° West, -20.503° South, depth 10 km. Event id: us1000bte7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bte7. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:52:51 / 10:52 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/12/17 / 2017-12-19 22:52:51 / December 19, 2017 @ 10:52 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pangai. Close country/countries, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

Did you feel the quake?

Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 89 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.9329° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.503° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km SSE 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 2017-12-19 22:52:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-19 23:14:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 432 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 6.872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us1000bte7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bte7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bte7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today