A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Boudinar in Morocco. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/03/16 / 2016-03-09 23:46:07 / March 9, 2016 @ 11:46 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10004wer. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004wer. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -3.553 West, latitude 35.6823 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 23:46:07 / 11:46 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nador, Melilla, Imzoûrene (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Al Hoceïma (c. 395 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Nador (c. 129 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Melilla (c. 73 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Tirhanimîne (c. 55 800 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Imzoûrene (c. 26 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Spain (c. 46 506 000 pop), Morocco (c. 31 627 000 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-six 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km N of Boudinar, Morocco. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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