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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 12 km ESE of Gaborone, Botswana

Posted by admin on December 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -24.6969S, 26.0269WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Gaborone in Botswana on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/12/20 / 2020-12-20 10:44:45 / December 20, 2020 @ 10:44 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 10:44:45 / 10:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000csnk. Unique identifier: us7000csnk. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 26.0269° East, -24.6969° South.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kanye, Lobatse, Molepolole. Earthquake epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Gaborone (c. 208 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Molepolole (c. 63 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kanye (c. 44 700 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Mogoditshane (c. 43 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mochudi (c. 37 000 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Lobatse (c. 30 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Botswana (c. 2 029 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 12 km ESE of Gaborone, Botswana.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.0269° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.6969° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km ESE of Gaborone, Botswana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-20 10:44:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-20 11:16:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 201 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 0.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us7000csnk Id of event.
Event Code 7000csnk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000csnk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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