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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Breyten in South Africa

Posted by admin on July 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -26.0351S, 30.138WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Breyten in South Africa. Id of earthquake: us2000g8dp. Event ids that are associated: us2000g8dp. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:34:40 / 3:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 30.138 East, latitude -26.0351 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/07/18 / 2018-07-19 01:34:40 / July 19, 2018 @ 1:34 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, South Africa (c. 49 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bethal, Middelburg, Ermelo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Middelburg (c. 154 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Bethal (c. 101 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ermelo (c. 41 100 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Hendrina (c. 15 900 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Breyten (c. 12 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Belfast (c. 11 900 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 one 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. 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: 33 km NNE of Breyten, South Africa.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 30.138° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -26.0351° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km NNE of Breyten, 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 2018-07-19 01:34:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-19 02:23:41 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 3.4 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 200 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 1.917 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us2000g8dp Id of event.
Event Code 2000g8dp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g8dp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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