A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Pangai in Tonga. Unique identifier: us2000fwq0. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fwq0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -173.7545 West, latitude -20.4048 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/18 / 2018-07-04 09:52:18 / July 4, 2018 @ 9:52 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:52:18 / 9:52 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pangai (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 91 km SE of Pangai, Tonga.
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