A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Southwest of Africa (0 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/03/16 / 2016-03-14 23:54:10 / March 14, 2016 @ 11:54 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005aiw. Unique identifier: us20005aiw. Exact location of event, longitude 18.8242 East, latitude -52.4962 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:54:10 / 12:54 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Southwest of Africa. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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