Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Bundibugyo in Uganda

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Bundibugyo in Uganda. Exact location of event, longitude 29.9312 East, latitude 0.8089 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:54:58 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000ac7g. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ac7g. Global time and date of event 21/06/20 / 2020-06-21 21:54:58 / June 21, 2020 @ 9:54 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Bunia (c. 96 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Beni (c. 89 600 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Kasese (c. 67 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Fort Portal (c. 42 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kyenjojo (c. 18 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kamwenge (c. 17 200 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 Bunia, Kamwenge, Kyenjojo.

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	29.9312° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.8089° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km NW of Bundibugyo, Uganda	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-21 21:54:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-30 21:29:04	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	284	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	1.617	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	us7000ac7g	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ac7g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ac7g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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