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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Sharm ash Shaykh in Egypt

Posted by admin on December 3, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 27.6257S, 34.5761WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Sharm ash Shaykh in Egypt. Id of earthquake: us70006dpe. Event ids that are associated: us70006dpe. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/11/19 / 2019-11-19 23:04:29 / November 19, 2019 @ 11:04 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 34.5761 East, latitude 27.6257 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 01:04:29 / 1:04 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Gouna, Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh. Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Hurghada (c. 95 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from El Gouna (c. 15 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Sharm el-Sheikh (c. 12 000 pop). Close country/countries, Egypt (c. 80 472 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km SE of Sharm ash Shaykh, Egypt. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 34.5761° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.6257° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km SE of Sharm ash Shaykh, Egypt Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-19 23:04:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-02 23:49:20 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 298 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 2.063 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 207 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 us70006dpe Id of event.
Event Code 70006dpe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006dpe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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