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Light earthquake 4 mag, 57 km WSW of Nkove, Tanzania


Earthquake location -8.1996S, 30.3953WA 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 57 km WSW of Nkove, Tanzania.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 30.3953° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1996° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km WSW of Nkove, Tanzania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-13 02:12:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-25 02:40:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 246 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 7.555 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us20006fuf Id of event.
Event Code 20006fuf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006fuf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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