Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Mbulu in Tanzania

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Mbulu in Tanzania. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 35.6252 East, latitude -3.7282 South, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/18 / 2018-08-08 21:07:22 / August 8, 2018 @ 9:07 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g8wr. Id of event: us1000g8wr. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:07:22 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Basotu, Nangwa, Endasak. Nearby country/countries, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Babati (c. 34 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Magugu (c. 26 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Basotu (c. 20 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Dareda (c. 19 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Kiratu (c. 19 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Bashanet (c. 19 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 16 km NE of Mbulu, Tanzania.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	35.6252° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.7282° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km NE of Mbulu, Tanzania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-08 21:07:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-24 22:06:00	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	271	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	2.771	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us1000g8wr	Id of event.
Event Code	1000g8wr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000g8wr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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