Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Kigorobya in Uganda

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Kigorobya in Uganda. Exact location of event, longitude 30.8804 East, latitude 1.615 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us6000aawt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000aawt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:34:15 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/06/20 / 2020-06-08 22:34:15 / June 8, 2020 @ 10:34 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Bunia (c. 96 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hoima (c. 39 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Masindi (c. 31 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Paidha (c. 28 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Kigorobya (c. 5 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kibale (c. 5 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Democratic Republic of the Congo (c. 70 916 000 pop), Uganda (c. 33 399 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Masindi, Kibale, Paidha.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km W of Kigorobya, Uganda. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	30.8804° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	1.615° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 km W of Kigorobya, Uganda	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-08 22:34:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-16 03:41:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	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	2.206	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	93	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	us6000aawt	Id of event.
Event Code	6000aawt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000aawt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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