Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Kolonga in Tonga

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Kolonga in Tonga. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/10/24 / 2024-10-06 21:50:49 / October 6, 2024 @ 9:50 pm. The temblor was reported at 21:50:49 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -174.2397 West, latitude -20.7275 South, depth = 10 km. Event id: us6000nwyi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nwyi.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 102 km (64 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from ‘Ohonua (c. 1 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangai, ‘Ohonua (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 97 km ENE of Kolonga, Tonga.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-174.2397° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-20.7275° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	97 km ENE of Kolonga, Tonga	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-06 21:50:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-06 22:08:09	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.931	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us6000nwyi	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nwyi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nwyi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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