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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Mlowo in Tanzania


Earthquake location -8.6246S, 32.7038WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Mlowo in Tanzania. Event id: us2000jn6z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jn6z. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 32.7038 East, latitude -8.6246 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:29:47 / 10:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/02/19 / 2019-02-02 07:29:47 / February 2, 2019 @ 7:29 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop), Zambia (c. 13 460 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mbeya, Nakonde, Tunduma. Event epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Mbeya (c. 291 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Vwawa (c. 40 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Tunduma (c. 36 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Laela (c. 19 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mlowo (c. 18 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Nakonde (c. 10 700 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 have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 51 km NW of Mlowo, Tanzania. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 32.7038° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.6246° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km NW of Mlowo, Tanzania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-02 07:29:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-27 07:49:34 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 284 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 7.951 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 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 us2000jn6z Id of event.
Event Code 2000jn6z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jn6z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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