A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Pangai in Tonga. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100.973 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/10/24 / 2024-10-04 21:15:10 / October 4, 2024 @ 9:15 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nwlr. Unique identifier: us6000nwlr. The temblor was detected at 21:15:10 / 9:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -175.1116 West, latitude -19.8696 South, depth = 100.973 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangai (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 79 km W of Pangai, Tonga. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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