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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Mhlambanyatsi in Swaziland

Posted by admin on July 1, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -26.4137S, 30.6209WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Mhlambanyatsi in Swaziland. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:28:53 / 10:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 30.6209° East, latitude -26.4137° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us700048cz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700048cz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/07/19 / 2019-07-01 08:28:53 / July 1, 2019 @ 8:28 am.

Nearby country/countries, Swaziland (c. 1 354 000 pop), South Africa (c. 49 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Manzini (c. 110 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Piet Retief (c. 84 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mbabane (c. 76 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Barberton (c. 67 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Ermelo (c. 41 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Driefontein (c. 28 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barberton, Piggs Peak, Manzini (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 39 km W of Mhlambanyatsi, Swaziland.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 30.6209° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -26.4137° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km W of Mhlambanyatsi, Swaziland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-01 08:28:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-01 21:58:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 200 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 4.741 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700048cz Id of event.
Event Code 700048cz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700048cz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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