A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Pangai in Tonga. All ids that are associated to the event: us70004as7. Unique identifier: us70004as7. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 06:38:13 / July 5, 2019 @ 6:38 am. Exact location of earthquake, -173.8224° West, -20.5565° South, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:38:13 / 6:38 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pangai. Event epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop). 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 five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 100 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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