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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Tamrida in Yemen


Earthquake location 14.711S, 54.9153WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 247 km NNE of Tamrida, Yemen (153 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:40:31 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 54.9153 East, latitude 14.711 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100041k8. Id of event: us100041k8. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 18:40:31 / November 26, 2015 @ 6:40 pm.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 247 km NNE of Tamrida, Yemen. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 54.9153° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.711° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 247km NNE of Tamrida, Yemen Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-26 18:40:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-26 19:05:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.357 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 2.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us100041k8 Id of event.
Event Code 100041k8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041k8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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