Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Tamrida in Yemen

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 222 km NNE of Tamrida, Yemen (138 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 22:41:55 / 10:41 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100041ka. Event ids that are associated: us100041ka. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 54.9728 East, latitude 14.4396 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 18:41:55 / November 26, 2015 @ 6:41 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two 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 earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 222 km NNE of Tamrida, Yemen.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	54.9728° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.4396° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	222km NNE of Tamrida, Yemen	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-11-26 18:41:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-26 19:16:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	240	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	369	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	2.135	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	91	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	us100041ka	Id of event.
Event Code	100041ka	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100041ka,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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