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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Utete in Tanzania

Posted by admin on April 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.3559S, 38.597WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Utete in Tanzania. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 16:40:48 / 4:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 38.597 East, latitude -8.3559 South, depth = 10 km. Event id: us70008wrp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008wrp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/04/20 / 2020-04-15 13:40:48 / April 15, 2020 @ 1:40 pm.

The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Kibiti (c. 30 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Bungu (c. 27 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ikwiriri (c. 13 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Utete (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bungu, Kibiti, Ikwiriri (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km SSW of Utete, Tanzania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 38.597° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3559° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km SSW of Utete, Tanzania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-15 13:40:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-16 05:07:15 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 5.982 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 64 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 us70008wrp Id of event.
Event Code 70008wrp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008wrp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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