A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Mbulu in Tanzania. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 35.6901° East, -3.6273° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003k4y. Id of event: us70003k4y. Global time and date of event 12/05/19 / 2019-05-12 02:50:58 / May 12, 2019 @ 2:50 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 05:50:58 / 5:50 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monduli, Endasak, Bashanet. Close country/countries that might be effected, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Babati (c. 34 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Magugu (c. 26 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Dareda (c. 19 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Kiratu (c. 19 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bashanet (c. 19 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Dongobesh (c. 18 900 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 30 km NE of Mbulu, Tanzania.
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