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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Kilmia in Yemen


Earthquake location 13.1874S, 51.3471WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 146 km NW of Kilmia, Yemen (91 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 51.3471 East, latitude 13.1874 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 21:33:51 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hqct. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hqct. Global time and date of event 10/11/18 / 2018-11-10 18:33:51 / November 10, 2018 @ 6:33 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 146 km NW of Kilmia, Yemen.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 51.3471° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.1874° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 146km NW of Kilmia, Yemen Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-10 18:33:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-10 19:15:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 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 326 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 11.677 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us1000hqct Id of event.
Event Code 1000hqct An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hqct, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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