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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 50 km NW of Itigi, Tanzania


Earthquake location -5.3432S, 34.1972WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Itigi in Tanzania on Saturday. Unique identifier: us70005vl7. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005vl7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/10/19 / 2019-10-12 20:11:59 / October 12, 2019 @ 8:11 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:11:59 / 11:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 34.1972° East, latitude -5.3432° South, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Singida (c. 62 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sepuka (c. 25 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mgandu (c. 23 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Itigi (c. 19 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ikungi (c. 19 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Puma (c. 17 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mungaa, Ndago, Singida. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 50 km NW of Itigi, Tanzania.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 34.1972° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.3432° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km NW of Itigi, Tanzania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-12 20:11:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-30 04:18:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 271 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 4.848 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us70005vl7 Id of event.
Event Code 70005vl7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005vl7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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