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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Al Qunfidhah in Saudi Arabia


Earthquake location 17.7549S, 40.1177WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 182 km SW of Al Qunfidhah, Saudi Arabia (113 miles). Exact location, longitude 40.1177° East, latitude 17.7549° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:48:33 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/02/20 / 2020-02-07 04:48:33 / February 7, 2020 @ 4:48 am. Event id: us70007kp0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007kp0. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 182 km SW of Al Qunfidhah, Saudi Arabia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.1177° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7549° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 182km SW of Al Qunfidhah, Saudi Arabia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-07 04:48:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-07 05:15:47 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 326 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 7.638 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us70007kp0 Id of event.
Event Code 70007kp0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007kp0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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