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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Hoima in Uganda

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Hoima in Uganda. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 31.1139° East, 1.4108° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008mew. Id of event: us20008mew. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/17 / 2017-02-25 17:19:35 / February 25, 2017 @ 5:19 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:19:35 / 8:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bunia, Kiboga, Masindi. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Democratic Republic of the Congo (c. 70 916 000 pop), Uganda (c. 33 399 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 97 km (60 miles) from Bunia (c. 96 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Hoima (c. 39 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Masindi (c. 31 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kiboga (c. 14 500 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Kigorobya (c. 5 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kibale (c. 5 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km W of Hoima, Uganda.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	31.1139° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	1.4108° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km W of Hoima, Uganda	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-25 17:19:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-25 18:22:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	341	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	2.034	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us20008mew	Id of event.
Event Code	20008mew	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008mew,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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