Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Pangai in Tonga

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Pangai in Tonga on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/10/20 / 2020-10-20 18:57:55 / October 20, 2020 @ 6:57 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ca8i. Unique identifier: us6000ca8i. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:57:55 / 6:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -174.1182° West, latitude -19.4376° South, depth = 35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Neiafu, Pangai (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Neiafu (c. 4 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop).

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 eight and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 48 km NNE of Pangai, Tonga.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-174.1182° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-19.4376° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48 km NNE 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	2020-10-20 18:57:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-20 19:35:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	385	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	7.613	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77	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	us6000ca8i	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ca8i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ca8i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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