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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag strikes near Kaputa in Zambia


Earthquake location -8.4514S, 30.0352WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Kaputa in Zambia. Exact location of earthquake, 30.0352° East, -8.4514° South, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:32:14 / 2:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20008lww. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008lww. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/02/17 / 2017-02-24 00:32:14 / February 24, 2017 @ 12:32 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop), Zambia (c. 13 460 000 pop). The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) from Mpulungu (c. 8 500 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Nkove (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mpulungu, Nkove (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 41 km E of Kaputa, Zambia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 30.0352° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.4514° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km E of Kaputa, Zambia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-24 00:32:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-24 00:58:04 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 7.16 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 572 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 7.829 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20008lww Id of event.
Event Code 20008lww An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008lww, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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