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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Ngorongoro in Tanzania


Earthquake location -2.9203S, 35.5791WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Ngorongoro in Tanzania. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.39 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g5sz. Id of event: us1000g5sz. Exact location of event, longitude 35.5791 East, latitude -2.9203 South, depth = 14.39 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 10:58:27 / August 5, 2018 @ 10:58 am. The temblor was detected at 13:58:27 / 1:58 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mto wa Mbu, Kiratu, Ngorongoro (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Kiratu (c. 19 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mto wa Mbu (c. 17 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ngorongoro (c. 10 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km NNE of Ngorongoro, Tanzania. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.5791° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.9203° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km NNE of Ngorongoro, Tanzania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-05 10:58:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-10 08:34:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.2 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 312 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 2.081 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us1000g5sz Id of event.
Event Code 1000g5sz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g5sz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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