Earthquake: M 4.3 quake strikes near Potchefstroom in South Africa

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (mg/mb) has occurred on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Potchefstroom in South Africa. The temblor was reported at 02:48:00 / 2:48 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time of event 06/02/15 / 2015-02-06 00:48:00 / February 6, 2015 @ 12:48 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 27.0879 East, latitude -26.9636 South, depth 5 km, unique identifier, usb000tnm9.

Close countries, South Africa (c. 49 000 000 pop). The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Vereeniging (c. 474 700 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Vanderbijlpark (c. 246 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Carletonville (c. 182 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Klerksdorp (c. 178 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Westonaria (c. 156 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Westonaria, Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpark.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	27.0879° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-26.9636° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km S of Potchefstroom, South Africa	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-02-06 00:48:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-03-06 23:51:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	284	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	2.31	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	155	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	usb000tnm9	Id of event.
Event Code	b000tnm9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usb000tnm9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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