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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Masumbwe in Tanzania

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Masumbwe in Tanzania. Event id: us1000d8q5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d8q5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 00:18:39 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/03/18 / 2018-03-24 21:18:39 / March 24, 2018 @ 9:18 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 32.3836 East, latitude -3.4342 South, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Uyovu, Misasi, Isaka. Country/countries that might be effected, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop). The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Ushirombo (c. 95 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Uyovu (c. 60 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Buseresere (c. 52 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Katoro (c. 49 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Geita (c. 40 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kahama (c. 36 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Masumbwe (c. 34 800 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km NE of Masumbwe, Tanzania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	32.3836° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.4342° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km NE of Masumbwe, Tanzania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-24 21:18:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-24 21:42:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	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	327	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	3.258	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us1000d8q5	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d8q5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000d8q5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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