A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Massawa in Eritrea on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 24/04/19 / 2019-04-24 12:51:03 / April 24, 2019 @ 12:51 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003gag. Unique identifier: us70003gag. Exact location, longitude 40.2128° East, latitude 16.0015° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 15:51:03 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Eritrea (c. 5 793 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Massawa (c. 23 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Massawa (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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 92 km ENE of Massawa, Eritrea.
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