Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Mpanda in Tanzania

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Mpanda in Tanzania on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/10/17 / 2017-10-22 06:05:13 / October 22, 2017 @ 6:05 am UTC/GMT. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:05:13 / 9:05 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us1000avii. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000avii. Exact location of earthquake, 30.7465° East, -6.1105° South, depth 10 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Karema, Mpanda (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Mpanda (c. 73 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Karema (c. 12 600 pop). Close country/countries, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 43 km NW of Mpanda, Tanzania.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	30.7465° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.1105° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km NW of Mpanda, Tanzania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-22 06:05:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-22 06:24:57	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	416	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	5.472	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	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	us1000avii	Id of event.
Event Code	1000avii	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000avii,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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