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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Massawa in Eritrea


Earthquake location 16.0015S, 40.2128WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Massawa in Eritrea on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 24/04/19 / 2019-04-24 12:51:03 / April 24, 2019 @ 12:51 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: us70003gag. Unique identifier: us70003gag. Exact location, longitude 40.2128° East, latitude 16.0015° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 15:51:03 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Eritrea (c. 5 793 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Massawa (c. 23 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Massawa (min 5000 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 92 km ENE of Massawa, Eritrea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.2128° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.0015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km ENE 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 2019-04-24 12:51:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-23 12:30:21 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 298 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 5.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us70003gag Id of event.
Event Code 70003gag An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003gag, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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