A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Fangale’ounga in Tonga. Exact location of event, longitude -173.7944 West, latitude -20.0304 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/09/24 / 2024-09-20 00:45:29 / September 20, 2024 @ 12:45 am. Unique identifier: us6000nu31. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nu31. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:45:29 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pangai. Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 63 km ESE of Fangale’ounga, Tonga.
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