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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Massawa in Eritrea

Posted by admin on May 19, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.7601S, 39.6821WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Massawa in Eritrea. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000md3v. Id of event: us7000md3v. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:19:22 / 9:19 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 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). Global time and date of event 19/04/24 / 2024-04-19 09:19:22 / April 19, 2024 @ 9:19 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 39.6821 East, latitude 15.7601 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Asmara, Massawa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Asmara (c. 563 900 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Massawa (c. 23 100 pop). Close country/countries, Eritrea (c. 5 793 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 27 km NE of Massawa, Eritrea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.6821° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7601° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 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 2024-04-19 09:19:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-15 11:30:07 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 298 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 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.209 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us7000md3v Id of event.
Event Code 7000md3v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000md3v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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