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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 138 km NNW of Bereeda, Somalia


Earthquake location 13.0103S, 50.5216WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 138 km NNW of Bereeda, Somalia (86 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 22:15:57 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70004k63. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004k63. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/07/19 / 2019-07-14 19:15:57 / July 14, 2019 @ 7:15 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 50.5216 East, latitude 13.0103 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 138 km NNW of Bereeda, Somalia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 50.5216° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0103° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138km NNW of Bereeda, Somalia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-14 19:15:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-14 19:31:45 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 7.644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us70004k63 Id of event.
Event Code 70004k63 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004k63, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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