Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt

Earthquake location 27.3003S, 34.7021W A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Id of earthquake: us6000acva. Event ids that are associated: us6000acva. Global time and date of event 16/06/20 / 2020-06-16 14:30:26 / June 16, 2020 @ 2:30 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 14:30:26 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 34.7021° East, 27.3003° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Hurghada (c. 95 600 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Būr Safājah (c. 32 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Duba (c. 22 000 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from El Gouna (c. 15 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Sharm el-Sheikh (c. 12 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Gouna, Būr Safājah, Duba (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Egypt (c. 80 472 000 pop), Saudi Arabia (c. 25 732 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 77 km SSE of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	34.7021° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	27.3003° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77 km SSE of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-16 14:30:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-16 14:47:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	433	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	4.059	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000acva	Id of event.
Event Code	6000acva	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000acva,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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