Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag strikes near Kaputa in Zambia

A earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Kaputa in Zambia. Exact location of earthquake, 30.0352° East, -8.4514° South, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:32:14 / 2:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20008lww. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008lww. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/02/17 / 2017-02-24 00:32:14 / February 24, 2017 @ 12:32 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop), Zambia (c. 13 460 000 pop). The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) from Mpulungu (c. 8 500 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Nkove (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mpulungu, Nkove (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 41 km E of Kaputa, Zambia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	30.0352° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.4514° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km E of Kaputa, Zambia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-24 00:32:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-24 00:58:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	7.16	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	572	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	7.829	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwp	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20008lww	Id of event.
Event Code	20008lww	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008lww,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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