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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Naberera in Tanzania


Earthquake location -4.169S, 36.7981WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Naberera in Tanzania. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/08/19 / 2019-08-20 06:54:59 / August 20, 2019 @ 6:54 am. Event id: us600057pe. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600057pe. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:54:59 / 9:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 36.7981 East, latitude -4.169 South, depth = 10 km.

The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Arusha (c. 341 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Merelani (c. 50 000 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Kingori (c. 22 800 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Usa River (c. 18 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mbuguni (c. 16 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Lembeni (c. 16 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nkoaranga (c. 14 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kingori, Lembeni, Nkoaranga. Close country/countries, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 15 km WNW of Naberera, Tanzania.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 36.7981° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.169° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WNW of Naberera, Tanzania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-20 06:54:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-20 21:13:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 356 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 2.185 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 86 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 us600057pe Id of event.
Event Code 600057pe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600057pe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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