Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Kabare in Democratic Republic

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Kabare in Democratic Republic . Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100034pp. Id of event: us100034pp. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/15 / 2015-08-07 01:50:26 / August 7, 2015 @ 1:50 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 28.8484° East, -2.2695° South. The temblor was picked up at 03:50:26 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nzega, Sake, Goma (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Democratic Republic of the Congo (c. 70 916 000 pop), Rwanda (c. 11 056 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (15 miles) from Bukavu (c. 225 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Goma (c. 144 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Gisenyi (c. 83 600 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Cyangugu (c. 63 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kibuye (c. 48 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Kabare (c. 37 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 22 km N of Kabare, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	28.8484° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.2695° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km N of Kabare, Democratic Republic of the Congo	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-07 01:50:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-26 23:10:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	285	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	2.512	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	us100034pp	Id of event.
Event Code	100034pp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100034pp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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