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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake reported in Tonga
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has been reported in the Tonga region by a single monitoring source. No immediate reports of damage or casualties have been corroborated.
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WhereTonga
-20.842, -175.034 ±400 km
First reported13 days ago
Published2026-10-12 04:49 UTC
Sources1
How this travelled.
Reports1Independent tellings0
0 independently corroborated tellings, 1 unresolved. A report we could not place either way is not counted as independence.
Corrections and updates
No published correction or update is recorded. This does not reconstruct changes made before correction records were kept.
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Global Event Monitor. Magnitude 5.5 earthquake reported in Tonga. 2026-10-12T04:49:43.349Z. Status: published. urn:global-events-monitor:event:5549. https://global.eventmonitor.net/event/2026-10-12/m-5-5-tonga-1d4be046
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