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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Kasese in Uganda


Earthquake location -0.042S, 30.1568WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Kasese in Uganda. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:01:10 / 4:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007kyn. Id of event: us70007kyn. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.43 km (15 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/01/20 / 2020-01-30 13:01:10 / January 30, 2020 @ 1:01 pm. Exact location, longitude 30.1568° East, latitude -0.042° South, depth = 24.43 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ntungamo, Rukungiri, Kyenjojo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Uganda (c. 33 399 000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Mbarara (c. 97 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bwizibwera (c. 79 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Kasese (c. 67 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Fort Portal (c. 42 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Kyenjojo (c. 18 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Kamwenge (c. 17 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 26 km SSE of Kasese, Uganda. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 30.1568° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.042° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SSE of Kasese, Uganda Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-30 13:01:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-21 20:04:35 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 298 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 0.804 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us70007kyn Id of event.
Event Code 70007kyn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007kyn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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