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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Thabazimbi in South Africa

Posted by admin on October 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -24.5313S, 27.1388WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Thabazimbi in South Africa. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 18:44:02 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005vle. Id of event: us70005vle. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/10/19 / 2019-10-18 16:44:02 / October 18, 2019 @ 4:44 pm. Exact location, longitude 27.1388° East, latitude -24.5313° South, depth = 10 km.

The epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Thabazimbi (c. 10 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Thabazimbi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, South Africa (c. 49 000 000 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 has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 28 km WNW of Thabazimbi, South Africa.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.1388° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.5313° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km WNW of Thabazimbi, South Africa Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-18 16:44:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-20 04:58:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 199 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 1.482 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005vle Id of event.
Event Code 70005vle An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005vle, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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