A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Dikhil in Djibouti. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:15:49 / 11:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 42.3207 East, latitude 11.1668 North, depth = 16.13 km. Global time and date of event 23/06/15 / 2015-06-23 08:15:49 / June 23, 2015 @ 8:15 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002w0q. Id of event: us20002w0q. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.13 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadjoura, ‘Arta, . Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from ‘Ali Sabieh (c. 40 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from (c. 40 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tadjoura (c. 22 200 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Dikhil (c. 12 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from ‘Arta (c. 6 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Djibouti (c. 741 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km NW of Dikhil, Djibouti.
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