Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 16 km SSE of Stilfontein, South Africa

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Stilfontein in South Africa on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, 26.8476° East, -26.9799° South. Global time and date of event 30/03/18 / 2018-03-30 09:33:31 / March 30, 2018 @ 9:33 am UTC/GMT. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:33:31 / 11:33 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000dbcx. Event ids that are associated: us1000dbcx.

Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Klerksdorp (c. 178 900 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Orkney (c. 145 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Potchefstroom (c. 123 700 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Stilfontein (c. 93 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Bothaville (c. 71 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, South Africa (c. 49 000 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Koppies, Parys, Vredefort.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor 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 three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km SSE of Stilfontein, South Africa.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.8476° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-26.9799° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km SSE of Stilfontein, 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	2018-03-30 09:33:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-30 11:30:15	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	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	158	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	2.153	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	214	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000dbcx	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dbcx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dbcx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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