Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Qishn in Yemen

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 97 km SSE of Qishn, Yemen (60 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:51:17 / 7:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/11/19 / 2019-11-24 04:51:17 / November 24, 2019 @ 4:51 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006eij. Id of event: us70006eij. Exact location of event, longitude 52.1374 East, latitude 14.6627 North, depth = 10 km.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 97 km SSE of Qishn, Yemen. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	52.1374° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.6627° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	97km SSE of Qishn, Yemen	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-24 04:51:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-06 02:14:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	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	19.959	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	176	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	us70006eij	Id of event.
Event Code	70006eij	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006eij,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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