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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Ouarzazat in Morocco


Earthquake location 30.78S, -6.8181WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Ouarzazat in Morocco. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/12/18 / 2018-12-29 21:48:03 / December 29, 2018 @ 9:48 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000izb6. Unique identifier: us2000izb6. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:48:03 / 9:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -6.8181 West, latitude 30.78 North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ouarzazat (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Morocco (c. 31 627 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 17 km (11 miles) from Ouarzazat (c. 57 200 pop).

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 has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 17 km SSE of Ouarzazat, Morocco.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -6.8181° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.78° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SSE of Ouarzazat, Morocco Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-29 21:48:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-30 22:40:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 0 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 2.561 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us2000izb6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000izb6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000izb6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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