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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Obock in Djibouti

Posted by admin on April 14, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.8372S, 43.4766WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Obock in Djibouti. The temblor was picked up at 08:53:19 / 8:53 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10008hgt. Event ids that are associated: us10008hgt. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 43.4766° East, 11.8372° North. 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). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/04/17 / 2017-04-14 05:53:19 / April 14, 2017 @ 5:53 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Djibouti (c. 741 000 pop). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Djibouti (c. 623 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from (c. 40 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Tadjoura (c. 22 200 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Obock (c. 17 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from ‘Arta (c. 6 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was ‘Arta, Tadjoura (min 5000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 24 km SE of Obock, Djibouti.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 43.4766° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.8372° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SE of Obock, Djibouti Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-14 05:53:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-14 06:09:31 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 3.8 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 340 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 5.551 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us10008hgt Id of event.
Event Code 10008hgt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008hgt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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