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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Orkney in South Africa

Posted by admin on April 5, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -27.0221S, 26.5482WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Orkney in South Africa. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008ect. Id of event: us60008ect. Exact location of earthquake, 26.5482° East, -27.0221° South, 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 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:58:18 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/03/20 / 2020-03-08 05:58:18 / March 8, 2020 @ 5:58 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wesselsbron, Kutloanong, Parys (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, South Africa (c. 49 000 000 pop). Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Klerksdorp (c. 178 900 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Orkney (c. 145 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Potchefstroom (c. 123 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kutloanong (c. 95 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Stilfontein (c. 93 100 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Bothaville (c. 71 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Parys (c. 71 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 13 km WSW of Orkney, South Africa.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.5482° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.0221° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km WSW of Orkney, South Africa Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-08 05:58:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-05 07:19:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 312 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 1.956 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us60008ect Id of event.
Event Code 60008ect An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008ect, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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