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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Moshi in Tanzania

Posted by admin on February 8, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.3105S, 37.361WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Moshi in Tanzania on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 11:52:38 / 11:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 37.361° East, -3.3105° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jf4q. Id of event: us2000jf4q. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/02/19 / 2019-02-07 08:52:38 / February 7, 2019 @ 8:52 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Arusha (c. 341 100 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Moshi (c. 157 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Merelani (c. 50 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Kingori (c. 22 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Usa River (c. 18 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Mbuguni (c. 16 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arusha, Kwakoa, Nkoaranga. Close country/countries, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 5 km NE of Moshi, Tanzania.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 37.361° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.3105° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NE of Moshi, Tanzania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-07 08:52:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-08 00:32:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 212 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 1.165 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 256 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 us2000jf4q Id of event.
Event Code 2000jf4q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jf4q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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