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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 6 km NNE of Fochville, South Africa

Posted by admin on May 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -26.4353S, 27.5087WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Fochville in South Africa. Unique identifier: us1000dzj3. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dzj3. Global time and date of event 04/05/18 / 2018-05-04 12:08:38 / May 4, 2018 @ 12:08 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 14:08:38 / 2:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, 27.5087° East, -26.4353° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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 Nigel, Klerksdorp, Centurion (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Johannesburg (c. 2 026 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Soweto (c. 1 695 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Benoni (c. 605 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tembisa (c. 511 700 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Vereeniging (c. 474 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Boksburg (c. 445 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Krugersdorp (c. 378 800 pop). Close country/countries, South Africa (c. 49 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km NNE of Fochville, South Africa. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.5087° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -26.4353° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 2018-05-04 12:08:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-06 21:23:10 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 6.6 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 2.23 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us1000dzj3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dzj3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dzj3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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