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Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Pangai in Tonga


Earthquake location -19.3534S, -174.8786WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was reported 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Pangai in Tonga on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/08/19 / 2019-08-05 09:01:08 / August 5, 2019 @ 9:01 am. Exact location, longitude -174.8786° West, latitude -19.3534° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:01:08 / 9:01 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us600050rn. Unique identifier: us600050rn.

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop). 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 Pangai.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 74 km NW of Pangai, Tonga.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.8786° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.3534° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km NW 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 2019-08-05 09:01:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-05 09:31:18 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 4.096 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 500 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 16.822 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us600050rn Id of event.
Event Code 600050rn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600050rn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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