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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Ceerigaabo in Somalia


Earthquake location 11.8205S, 46.3477WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 173 km NW of Ceerigaabo, Somalia (107 miles). Unique identifier: us20002x41. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002x41. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.23 km (9 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/07/15 / 2015-07-13 11:12:58 / July 13, 2015 @ 11:12 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 46.3477 East, latitude 11.8205 North, depth = 15.23 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:12:58 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 173 km NW of Ceerigaabo, Somalia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 46.3477° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.8205° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 173km NW of Ceerigaabo, Somalia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-13 11:12:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-13 11:29:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 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 340 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 3.441 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us20002x41 Id of event.
Event Code 20002x41 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002x41, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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