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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Saldanha in South Africa

Posted by admin on November 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.3826S, 17.9304WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Saldanha in South Africa. Id of earthquake: us7000cfw3. Event ids that are associated: us7000cfw3. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:27:04 / 10:27 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/11/20 / 2020-11-16 22:27:04 / November 16, 2020 @ 10:27 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 17.9304 East, latitude -33.3826 South, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, South Africa (c. 49 000 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Cape Town (c. 3 433 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Saldanha (c. 68 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Atlantis (c. 60 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Malmesbury (c. 35 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Rondebosch (c. 15 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Claremont (c. 14 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Claremont, Rondebosch, Newlands (min 5000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km S of Saldanha, South Africa. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 17.9304° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.3826° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41 km S of Saldanha, 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 2020-11-16 22:27:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-16 22:48:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 61 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 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 212 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 2.622 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 264 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000cfw3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cfw3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cfw3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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