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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Kilembe in Uganda

Posted by admin on February 12, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.0049S, 29.6751WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Kilembe in Uganda. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:38:47 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/02/19 / 2019-02-12 17:38:47 / February 12, 2019 @ 5:38 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 29.6751° East, -0.0049° South. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jgyp. Unique identifier: us2000jgyp.

Close country/countries, Democratic Republic of the Congo (c. 70 916 000 pop), Uganda (c. 33 399 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Beni, Margherita, Kasese. Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (28 miles) from Butembo (c. 154 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Beni (c. 89 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kasese (c. 67 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Kilembe (c. 7 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Margherita (c. 5 100 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 42 km WSW of Kilembe, Uganda.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 29.6751° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.0049° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km WSW of Kilembe, Uganda Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-12 17:38:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-12 23:10:29 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 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 234 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 1.217 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us2000jgyp Id of event.
Event Code 2000jgyp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jgyp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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