A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Nuwaybi`a in Egypt. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.43 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/07/15 / 2015-07-08 02:15:31 / July 8, 2015 @ 2:15 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20002w5q. Unique identifier: us20002w5q. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:15:31 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 34.6211° East, latitude 28.9479° North, depth = 12.43 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Aqaba (c. 95 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Eilat (c. 45 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Dhahab (c. 8 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Egypt (c. 80 472 000 pop), Israel (c. 7 354 000 pop), Jordan (c. 6 407 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eilat, Aqaba, Dhahab (min 5000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SSW of Nuwaybi`a, Egypt. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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