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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Nuwaybi`a in Egypt


Earthquake location 28.9479S, 34.6211WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Nuwaybi`a in Egypt. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.43 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/07/15 / 2015-07-08 02:15:31 / July 8, 2015 @ 2:15 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20002w5q. Unique identifier: us20002w5q. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:15:31 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 34.6211° East, latitude 28.9479° North, depth = 12.43 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Aqaba (c. 95 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Eilat (c. 45 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Dhahab (c. 8 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Egypt (c. 80 472 000 pop), Israel (c. 7 354 000 pop), Jordan (c. 6 407 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eilat, Aqaba, Dhahab (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SSW of Nuwaybi`a, Egypt. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 34.6211° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.9479° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSW of Nuwaybi`a, Egypt Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-08 02:15:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-08 21:21:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 188 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 2.486 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 291 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 us20002w5q Id of event.
Event Code 20002w5q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002w5q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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