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Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near Pangai in Tonga


Earthquake location -20.3712S, -173.9642WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Pangai in Tonga on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000ngng. Event ids that are associated: us6000ngng. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/07/24 / 2024-07-29 13:07:12 / July 29, 2024 @ 1:07 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 13:07:12 / 1:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -173.9642° West, latitude -20.3712° South, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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 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: 73 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.9642° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.3712° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73 km SSE 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 2024-07-29 13:07:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-29 13:28:33 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 554 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 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.365 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 44 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 us6000ngng Id of event.
Event Code 6000ngng An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ngng, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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