Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 161 km SE of Zinjibar, Yemen

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 161 km SE of Zinjibar, Yemen (100 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 46.4249 East, latitude 12.0845 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002xx2. Id of event: us10002xx2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:33:07 / 6:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/15 / 2015-07-15 15:33:07 / July 15, 2015 @ 3:33 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seven 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 161 km SE of Zinjibar, Yemen.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	46.4249° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.0845° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	161km SE of Zinjibar, Yemen	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-15 15:33:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-05 23:39:45	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	259	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	3.546	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	130	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	us10002xx2	Id of event.
Event Code	10002xx2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002xx2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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