A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Pangai in Tonga. Exact location of event, longitude -175.0982 West, latitude -20.2373 South, depth = 94.41 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/12/18 / 2018-12-24 01:00:54 / December 24, 2018 @ 1:00 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000iwxs. Unique identifier: us2000iwxs. The temblor was detected at 13:00:54 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 94.41 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nuku‘alofa, Pangai. Event epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Nuku‘alofa (c. 22 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 92 km WSW of Pangai, Tonga.
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