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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 95 km ENE of Pangai, Tonga


Earthquake location -19.5025S, -173.4949WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Pangai in Tonga. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 22:51:01 / July 6, 2018 @ 10:51 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:51:01 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -173.4949° West, -19.5025° South, depth 114.53 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 114.53 km (71 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fyr3. Id of event: us2000fyr3.

The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangai (min 5000 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 95 km ENE of Pangai, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.4949° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.5025° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km ENE of Pangai, Tonga Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-06 22:51:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-06 23:17:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 354 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 3.396 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us2000fyr3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000fyr3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fyr3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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