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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Massawa in Eritrea


Earthquake location 15.9019S, 39.8247WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Massawa in Eritrea. Id of earthquake: us1000g7zy. Event ids that are associated: us1000g7zy. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:54:30 / 4:54 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/08/18 / 2018-08-13 13:54:30 / August 13, 2018 @ 1:54 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 39.8247° East, 15.9019° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Massawa (c. 23 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Massawa. Nearby country/countries, Eritrea (c. 5 793 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 51 km NE of Massawa, Eritrea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.8247° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.9019° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km NE of Massawa, Eritrea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-13 13:54:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-13 14:12:26 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 354 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 5.244 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us1000g7zy Id of event.
Event Code 1000g7zy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g7zy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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