Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Africa

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, South of Africa (0 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/15 / 2015-12-21 02:54:38 / December 21, 2015 @ 2:54 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100048iy. Id of event: us100048iy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 27.3812 East, latitude -52.7994 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 04:54:38 / 4:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: South of Africa.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	27.3812° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-52.7994° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	South of Africa	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-21 02:54:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-21 03:13:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	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	354	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	20.956	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us100048iy	Id of event.
Event Code	100048iy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100048iy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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