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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Zarzis in Tunisia


Earthquake location 33.5543S, 11.2632WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Zarzis in Tunisia. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008p70. Unique identifier: us10008p70. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 09:26:58 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 11.2632° East, 33.5543° North, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 04/05/17 / 2017-05-04 08:26:58 / May 4, 2017 @ 8:26 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zalţan, Medenine, Houmt Souk (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Midoun (c. 120 000 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Zarzis (c. 79 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Houmt Souk (c. 62 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Medenine (c. 61 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Zalţan (c. 17 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Bin Qirdān (c. 13 400 pop). Close country/countries, Libya (c. 6 461 000 pop), Tunisia (c. 10 589 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km ENE of Zarzis, Tunisia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 11.2632° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.5543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km ENE of Zarzis, Tunisia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-04 08:26:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-04 08:45:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 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 284 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 2.686 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us10008p70 Id of event.
Event Code 10008p70 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008p70, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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