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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 46 km N of Boudinar, Morocco


Earthquake location 35.5718S, -3.5728WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Boudinar in Morocco. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:03:17 / 11:03 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004ud0. Id of event: us10004ud0. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.72 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -3.5728 West, latitude 35.5718 North, depth = 11.72 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/02/16 / 2016-02-28 11:03:17 / February 28, 2016 @ 11:03 am.

Epicenter of the event was 49 km (30 miles) from Al Hoceïma (c. 395 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Nador (c. 129 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Melilla (c. 73 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Tirhanimîne (c. 55 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Imzoûrene (c. 26 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nador, Melilla, Imzoûrene (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Spain (c. 46 506 000 pop), Morocco (c. 31 627 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twenty-eight 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: 46 km N of Boudinar, Morocco.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -3.5728° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5718° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km N of Boudinar, Morocco Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-28 11:03:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-11 12:33:40 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 284 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 2.885 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us10004ud0 Id of event.
Event Code 10004ud0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004ud0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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