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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Massawa in Eritrea

Posted by admin on May 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.8037S, 39.6219WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Massawa in Eritrea on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000mugq. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mugq. Exact location of event, longitude 39.6219 East, latitude 15.8037 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:44:40 / 8:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/04/24 / 2024-04-27 20:44:40 / April 27, 2024 @ 8:44 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Asmara (c. 563 900 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Massawa (c. 23 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Asmara, Massawa. Country/countries that might be effected, Eritrea (c. 5 793 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 26 km NE of Massawa, Eritrea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.6219° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.8037° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km NE of Massawa, Eritrea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-27 20:44:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-04 04:35:39 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 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 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us6000mugq Id of event.
Event Code 6000mugq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mugq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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