Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Fochville in South Africa

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Fochville in South Africa on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 17:55:00 / 5:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/03/18 / 2018-03-14 15:55:00 / March 14, 2018 @ 3:55 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 27.5497° East, -26.4036° South, depth 5 km. Id of earthquake: us1000d7h4. Event ids that are associated: us1000d7h4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Koppies, Nigel, Stilfontein. The epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Johannesburg (c. 2 026 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Soweto (c. 1 695 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Benoni (c. 605 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Tembisa (c. 511 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Vereeniging (c. 474 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Boksburg (c. 445 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Krugersdorp (c. 378 800 pop). Close country/countries, South Africa (c. 49 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km NNE of Fochville, 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	27.5497° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-26.4036° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NNE of Fochville, 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	2018-03-14 15:55:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-26 00:59:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	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	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	2.239	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	us1000d7h4	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d7h4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000d7h4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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