Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Liuli in Tanzania

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Liuli in Tanzania. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006u9l. Id of event: us70006u9l. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:04:39 / 6:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 34.3328° East, latitude -10.9544° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 18/12/19 / 2019-12-18 16:04:39 / December 18, 2019 @ 4:04 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tingi, Kigonsera, Mbinga. Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Mzuzu (c. 175 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Mbinga (c. 25 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kigonsera (c. 22 200 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Rumphi (c. 20 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Matiri (c. 18 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Tingi (c. 16 300 pop). Close country/countries, Malawi (c. 15 448 000 pop), Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 have been detected in the same area. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 35 km WNW of Liuli, Tanzania.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	34.3328° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.9544° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km WNW of Liuli, Tanzania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-18 16:04:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-13 01:18:38	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	271	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	9.299	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	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	us70006u9l	Id of event.
Event Code	70006u9l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006u9l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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