Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Ntoroko in Uganda

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Ntoroko in Uganda. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us100085py. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100085py. Exact location, longitude 30.7252° East, latitude 1.4576° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/02/17 / 2017-02-18 03:37:14 / February 18, 2017 @ 3:37 am. The temblor was reported at 06:37:14 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kyenjojo, Kibale, Hoima. 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 54 km (33 miles) from Bunia (c. 96 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hoima (c. 39 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kyenjojo (c. 18 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Kigorobya (c. 5 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kibale (c. 5 200 pop).

Each 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 53 km NNE of Ntoroko, Uganda.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	30.7252° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	1.4576° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53km NNE of Ntoroko, Uganda	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-18 03:37:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-05 04:50:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	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		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	271	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	2.045	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	152	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	us100085py	Id of event.
Event Code	100085py	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100085py,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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