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Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Nsunga in Tanzania

Posted by admin on September 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -1.0286S, 31.5683WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Nsunga in Tanzania. Exact location, longitude 31.5683° East, latitude -1.0286° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 15:27:29 / 3:27 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006nkx. Unique identifier: us10006nkx. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/09/16 / 2016-09-10 12:27:29 / September 10, 2016 @ 12:27 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bwizibwera, Mbarara, Muleba (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 113 km (70 miles) from Mbarara (c. 97 500 pop), 115 km (72 miles) from Bwizibwera (c. 79 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Bukoba (c. 70 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Masaka (c. 65 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Nsunga (c. 20 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Nshamba (c. 19 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Katerero (c. 18 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kamachumu (c. 15 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop), Uganda (c. 33 399 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 23 km ENE of Nsunga, Tanzania.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 31.5683° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.0286° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ENE of Nsunga, Tanzania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-10 12:27:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-10 12:55:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 36 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.9 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 521 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 5.684 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us10006nkx Id of event.
Event Code 10006nkx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006nkx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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