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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Orkney in South Africa

Posted by admin on May 2, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -27.0528S, 26.6671WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Orkney in South Africa. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:50:38 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 26.6671° East, latitude -27.0528° South, depth = 5 km. Event id: us10008n6u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008n6u. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/17 / 2017-04-22 20:50:38 / April 22, 2017 @ 8:50 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, South Africa (c. 49 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 22 km (14 miles) from Klerksdorp (c. 178 900 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Orkney (c. 145 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Potchefstroom (c. 123 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kroonstad (c. 104 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kutloanong (c. 95 000 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Stilfontein (c. 93 100 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Bothaville (c. 71 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wesselsbron, Koppies, Kutloanong.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km S of Orkney, South Africa. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.6671° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.0528° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km S of Orkney, South Africa Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-22 20:50:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-02 23:41:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 1.995 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us10008n6u Id of event.
Event Code 10008n6u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008n6u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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