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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Tanga in Tanzania

Posted by admin on February 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.0291S, 39.2566WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Tanga in Tanzania. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.98 km (9 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 39.2566 East, latitude -5.0291 South, depth = 14.98 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/02/17 / 2017-02-05 09:54:40 / February 5, 2017 @ 9:54 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008kgz. Unique identifier: us20008kgz. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:54:40 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 18 km (11 miles) from Tanga (c. 224 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Maramba (c. 26 500 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Wete (c. 26 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Chake Chake (c. 21 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Muheza (c. 17 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mlalo (c. 15 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sawa Sawa (c. 13 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mkokotoni, Nungwi, Gazi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Kenya (c. 40 047 000 pop), Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop).

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 has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 17 km ENE of Tanga, Tanzania.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.2566° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.0291° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km ENE of Tanga, Tanzania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-05 09:54:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-24 07:17:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 312 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 2.915 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us20008kgz Id of event.
Event Code 20008kgz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008kgz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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