Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Mpanda in Tanzania

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Mpanda in Tanzania. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/09/19 / 2019-09-09 00:38:43 / September 9, 2019 @ 12:38 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005dj8. Id of event: us70005dj8. The temblor was reported at 03:38:43 / 3:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 30.7634° East, latitude -6.4396° South, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirando, Usevia, Karema (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Mpanda (c. 73 300 pop), 110 km (68 miles) from Kirando (c. 33 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Usevia (c. 17 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Karema (c. 12 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate 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 struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km WSW of Mpanda, Tanzania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	30.7634° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.4396° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km WSW of Mpanda, Tanzania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-09 00:38:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-09 01:05:41	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	6.699	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	465	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	5.799	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	22	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	us70005dj8	Id of event.
Event Code	70005dj8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005dj8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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