A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Nkove in Tanzania. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20006fuf. Event ids that are associated: us20006fuf. Exact location of earthquake, 30.3953° East, -8.1996° South, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/07/16 / 2016-07-13 02:12:05 / July 13, 2016 @ 2:12 am. The temblor was detected at 04:12:05 / 4:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirando, Nkove (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Kirando (c. 33 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Nkove (c. 5 400 pop).
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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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