A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Kigoma in Tanzania. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 00:42:14 / November 9, 2015 @ 12:42 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:42:14 / 3:42 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003xvu. Unique identifier: us10003xvu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 29.7358 East, latitude -4.9957 South, depth = 10 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Uvinza, Kasulu, Mwandiga (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Kigoma (c. 164 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Kasulu (c. 37 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Uvinza (c. 24 700 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Mwandiga (c. 16 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km SE of Kigoma, Tanzania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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