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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 153 km W of Pangai, Tonga


Earthquake location -19.7101S, -175.8112WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 153 km W of Pangai, Tonga (95 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 14:36:32 / 2:36 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000mubd. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mubd. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/04/24 / 2024-04-27 14:36:32 / April 27, 2024 @ 2:36 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 229.832 km (143 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -175.8112° West, latitude -19.7101° South, depth = 229.832 km.

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

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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: 153 km W of Pangai, Tonga.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.8112° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.7101° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 229.832 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 153 km W 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 2024-04-27 14:36:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-27 14:50:57 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 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.56 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us6000mubd Id of event.
Event Code 6000mubd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mubd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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