A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Khorixas in Namibia. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 21/11/19 / 2019-11-21 02:20:52 / November 21, 2019 @ 2:20 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 14.836 East, latitude -19.7928 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 03:20:52 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70006ass. Event ids that are associated: us70006ass. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khorixas. Close country/countries that might be effected, Namibia (c. 2 128 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Khorixas (c. 12 000 pop).
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 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 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: 64 km NNW of Khorixas, Namibia.
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