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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Uvira in Democratic Republic


Earthquake location -3.772S, 28.5633WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Uvira in Democratic Republic on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100048cu. Id of event: us100048cu. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:26:05 / 3:26 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 28.5633° East, -3.772° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/12/15 / 2015-12-19 13:26:05 / December 19, 2015 @ 1:26 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from Bujumbura (c. 331 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Uvira (c. 170 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Rumonge (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rumonge, Bujumbura, Uvira. Nearby country/countries, Burundi (c. 9 863 000 pop), Democratic Republic of the Congo (c. 70 916 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. 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: 76 km WSW of Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.5633° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.772° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km WSW of Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-19 13:26:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-19 13:44:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 3.826 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us100048cu Id of event.
Event Code 100048cu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100048cu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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