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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Massawa in Eritrea


Earthquake location 15.7596S, 39.7163WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Massawa in Eritrea on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/04/24 / 2024-04-28 00:37:18 / April 28, 2024 @ 12:37 am. The temblor was reported at 00:37:18 / 12:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 39.7163° East, 15.7596° North, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000muif. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000muif.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Asmara, Massawa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Asmara (c. 563 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Massawa (c. 23 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Eritrea (c. 5 793 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 30 km ENE of Massawa, Eritrea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.7163° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7596° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km ENE 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 2024-04-28 00:37:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-28 00:53:20 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 385 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 104 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.189 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us6000muif Id of event.
Event Code 6000muif An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000muif, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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