Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Fangale’ounga in Tonga

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Fangale’ounga in Tonga. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qkbr. Id of event: us6000qkbr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:21:30 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/06/25 / 2025-06-14 18:21:30 / June 14, 2025 @ 6:21 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -173.6181 West, latitude -19.9202 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangai (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Pangai (c. 1 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tonga (c. 123 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighty-one 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: 76 km ESE of Fangale’ounga, Tonga. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-173.6181° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-19.9202° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	76 km ESE of Fangale’ounga, Tonga	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-14 18:21:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-14 18:42:31	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	400	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	129	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.231	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	67	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	us6000qkbr	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qkbr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qkbr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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