A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Khorixas in Namibia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 24/05/18 / 2018-05-24 12:04:45 / May 24, 2018 @ 12:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 14.6452 East, latitude -19.7117 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 13:04:45 / 1:04 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ebjk. Unique identifier: us1000ebjk.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Namibia (c. 2 128 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Khorixas (c. 12 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khorixas (min 5000 pop).
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 occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 79 km NNW of Khorixas, Namibia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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