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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Vaini in Tonga


Earthquake location -22.4704S, -176.7779WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 215 km SW of Vaini, Tonga (134 miles) on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us100040u4. Unique identifier: us100040u4. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 134.26 km (83 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -176.7779° West, -22.4704° South, depth 134.26 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:25:26 / 7:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/15 / 2015-11-24 19:25:26 / November 24, 2015 @ 7:25 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 215 km SW of Vaini, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.7779° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.4704° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 134.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 215km SW of Vaini, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-24 19:25:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-24 19:49:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.244 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us100040u4 Id of event.
Event Code 100040u4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040u4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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