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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Tonga region


Earthquake location -18.8708S, -172.8042WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, Tonga region (0 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -172.8042 West, latitude -18.8708 South, depth = 10 km. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:43:20 / 6:43 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000cnc9. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000cnc9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/12/20 / 2020-12-05 06:43:20 / December 5, 2020 @ 6:43 am.

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 fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Tonga region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.8042° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.8708° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Tonga region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-05 06:43:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-05 06:59:38 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 465 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 5.03 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000cnc9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cnc9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cnc9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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