Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near `Arta in Djibouti

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from `Arta in Djibouti. Exact location of event, depth 10.16 km, 42.9046° East, 11.6067° North. Id of earthquake: us10005iwf. Event ids that are associated: us10005iwf. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.16 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:25:12 / 8:25 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/16 / 2016-05-14 17:25:12 / May 14, 2016 @ 5:25 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dikhil, Obock, ‘Ali Sabieh. The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Djibouti (c. 623 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from ‘Ali Sabieh (c. 40 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from (c. 40 100 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Tadjoura (c. 22 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Obock (c. 17 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Dikhil (c. 12 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Djibouti (c. 741 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km NE of `Arta, Djibouti.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	42.9046° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.6067° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km NE of `Arta, Djibouti	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-14 17:25:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-11 18:38:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.9	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	285	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	0.094	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us10005iwf	Id of event.
Event Code	10005iwf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005iwf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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