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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake strikes near Zouerate in Mauritania


Earthquake location 22.6737S, -12.1319WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (mg/mb) has occurred on Monday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Zouerate in Mauritania. The temblor was reported at 16:56:59 / 4:56 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 15.02 km (9 miles). Global time of event 09/02/15 / 2015-02-09 16:56:59 / February 9, 2015 @ 4:56 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -12.1319 West, latitude 22.6737 North, depth 15.02 km, unique identifier, usb000tp3w.

Close countries, Mauritania (c. 3 205 000 pop). The epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Zouérat (c. 38 000 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zouérat.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -12.1319° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.6737° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km E of Zouerate, Mauritania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-09 16:56:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-03-11 15:41:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 0 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 298 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 11.193 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 usb000tp3w Id of event.
Event Code b000tp3w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usb000tp3w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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