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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Rubirizi in Uganda

Posted by admin on January 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.2296S, 29.7826WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Rubirizi in Uganda on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 22:32:06 / January 28, 2020 @ 10:32 pm. Unique identifier: us60007ik2. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007ik2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 29.7826 East, latitude -0.2296 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:32:06 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 68 km (43 miles) from Butembo (c. 154 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Beni (c. 89 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Kasese (c. 67 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kamwenge (c. 17 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ntungamo (c. 16 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ntungamo (c. 15 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kanungu (c. 14 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ntungamo, Kamwenge, Beni (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Democratic Republic of the Congo (c. 70 916 000 pop), Uganda (c. 33 399 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. 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 have been detected nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 39 km W of Rubirizi, Uganda.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 29.7826° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.2296° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km W of Rubirizi, Uganda Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-28 22:32:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-28 22:50:19 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 340 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 1.024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us60007ik2 Id of event.
Event Code 60007ik2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007ik2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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