A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Faro in Portugal. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/03/16 / 2016-03-02 13:41:07 / March 2, 2016 @ 1:41 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:41:07 / 12:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -8.168 West, latitude 36.2028 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10004urx. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004urx.
Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Faro (c. 41 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Portugal (c. 10 676 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Faro (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 93 km SSW of Faro, Portugal. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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