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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 172 km NW of Fangale’ounga, Tonga


Earthquake location -18.8525S, -175.6651WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 172 km NW of Fangale’ounga, Tonga (107 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 05:53:32 / April 24, 2024 @ 5:53 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 226.05 km (140 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mten. Unique identifier: us6000mten. Exact location of event, longitude -175.6651 West, latitude -18.8525 South, depth = 226.05 km. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:53:32 / 5:53 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 172 km NW of Fangale’ounga, Tonga.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.6651° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.8525° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 226.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 172 km NW of Fangale’ounga, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-24 05:53:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-25 05:56:57 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 3.119 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 100 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000mten Id of event.
Event Code 6000mten An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mten, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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