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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Al Hoceima in Morocco

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Al Hoceima in Morocco. The temblor was reported at 18:17:33 / 6:17 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -3.7866° West, latitude 35.5397° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/01/16 / 2016-01-25 18:17:33 / January 25, 2016 @ 6:17 pm. Unique identifier: us10004h4a. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004h4a. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Spain (c. 46 506 000 pop), Morocco (c. 31 627 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nador, Melilla, Imzoûrene (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Al Hoceïma (c. 395 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Nador (c. 129 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Melilla (c. 73 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Tirhanimîne (c. 55 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Imzoûrene (c. 26 700 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km NNE of Al Hoceima, Morocco. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Al Hoceima Imzoûrene Melilla Morocco Nador Spain Tirhanimîne

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-3.7866° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5397° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km NNE of Al Hoceima, Morocco	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-25 18:17:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-25 18:58:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	0	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	271	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	2.168	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	127	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	us10004h4a	Id of event.
Event Code	10004h4a	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004h4a,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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