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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Bundibugyo in Uganda

Posted by admin on October 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.6273S, 29.9281WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Bundibugyo in Uganda on Friday. The temblor was reported at 01:52:47 / 1:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/09/18 / 2018-09-13 23:52:47 / September 13, 2018 @ 11:52 pm. Event id: us2000hi5x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hi5x. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 29.9281 East, latitude 0.6273 North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Butembo (c. 154 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Beni (c. 89 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Kasese (c. 67 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Fort Portal (c. 42 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kyenjojo (c. 18 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kamwenge (c. 17 200 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Bundibugyo (c. 16 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Butembo, Kyenjojo, Kamwenge. Nearby country/countries, Democratic Republic of the Congo (c. 70 916 000 pop), Uganda (c. 33 399 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km SW of Bundibugyo, Uganda. 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 29.9281° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.6273° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SW of Bundibugyo, Uganda Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-13 23:52:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-01 04:35:43 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 1.465 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us2000hi5x Id of event.
Event Code 2000hi5x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hi5x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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