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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Kalemie in Democratic Republic


Earthquake location -6.1323S, 29.9683WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Kalemie in Democratic Republic on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008m05. Unique identifier: us10008m05. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:53:22 / 1:53 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 29.9683° East, -6.1323° South. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/04/17 / 2017-04-29 10:53:22 / April 29, 2017 @ 10:53 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Democratic Republic of the Congo (c. 70 916 000 pop), Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Kalemie (c. 147 000 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Karema (c. 12 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Karema, Kalemie.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 88 km ESE of Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 29.9683° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1323° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km ESE of Kalemie, 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 2017-04-29 10:53:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-29 11:15:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 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 432 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 5.547 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us10008m05 Id of event.
Event Code 10008m05 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008m05, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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