Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Fangale’ounga in Tonga

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Fangale’ounga in Tonga. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nhee. Unique identifier: us7000nhee. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -174.0438 West, latitude -19.6058 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/10/24 / 2024-10-01 08:23:24 / October 1, 2024 @ 8:23 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:23:24 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pangai (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km ENE of Fangale’ounga, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-174.0438° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-19.6058° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 km ENE 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	2024-10-01 08:23:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-01 08:53:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.959	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	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	us7000nhee	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nhee	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nhee,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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