Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 152 km SE of Zinjibar, Yemen

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 152 km SE of Zinjibar, Yemen (94 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 46.23° East, latitude 12.0329° North, depth = 13.64 km. The temblor was detected at 06:54:15 / 6:54 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/07/15 / 2015-07-14 03:54:15 / July 14, 2015 @ 3:54 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002xv5. Unique identifier: us10002xv5. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.64 km (8 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 152 km SE of Zinjibar, Yemen.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	46.23° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.0329° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.64 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	152km 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	2015-07-14 03:54:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-12 22:39:45	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	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	3.35	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	152	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	us10002xv5	Id of event.
Event Code	10002xv5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002xv5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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