A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Magugu in Tanzania. Exact location of event, longitude 35.7691 East, latitude -3.8413 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:00:22 / 6:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us70003ilh. Event ids that are associated: us70003ilh. Global time and date of event 08/05/19 / 2019-05-08 15:00:22 / May 8, 2019 @ 3:00 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Babati (c. 34 300 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Magugu (c. 26 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Dareda (c. 19 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kiratu (c. 19 800 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Bashanet (c. 19 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Dongobesh (c. 18 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nangwa, Ngorongoro, Endasak (min 5000 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 was reported nearby. 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 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: 19 km N of Magugu, Tanzania.
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