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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Liuli in Tanzania


Earthquake location -10.9544S, 34.3328WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Liuli in Tanzania. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006u9l. Id of event: us70006u9l. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:04:39 / 6:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 34.3328° East, latitude -10.9544° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 18/12/19 / 2019-12-18 16:04:39 / December 18, 2019 @ 4:04 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tingi, Kigonsera, Mbinga. Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Mzuzu (c. 175 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Mbinga (c. 25 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kigonsera (c. 22 200 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Rumphi (c. 20 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Matiri (c. 18 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Tingi (c. 16 300 pop). Close country/countries, Malawi (c. 15 448 000 pop), 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 35 km WNW of Liuli, Tanzania.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 34.3328° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.9544° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km WNW of Liuli, Tanzania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-18 16:04:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-13 01:18:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 9.299 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us70006u9l Id of event.
Event Code 70006u9l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006u9l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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