A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Pangai in Tonga. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006uzy. Unique identifier: us10006uzy. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/16 / 2016-09-24 23:06:14 / September 24, 2016 @ 11:06 pm. The temblor was picked up at 11:06:14 / 11:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -174.1565 West, latitude -20.2779 South, depth = 35 km.
The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangai. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 56 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga.
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