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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Rumonge in Burundi


Earthquake location -3.7613S, 29.2592WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Rumonge in Burundi on Monday. Event id: us7000bec2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bec2. The temblor was detected at 10:13:56 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 29.2592 East, latitude -3.7613 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/08/20 / 2020-08-24 10:13:56 / August 24, 2020 @ 10:13 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rutana, Gitega, Bubanza (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (27 miles) from Bujumbura (c. 331 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Uvira (c. 170 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Gitega (c. 23 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Rutana (c. 20 900 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Bururi (c. 19 700 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Makamba (c. 19 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Burundi (c. 9 863 000 pop), Democratic Republic of the Congo (c. 70 916 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 30 km NW of Rumonge, Burundi.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 29.2592° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.7613° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km NW of Rumonge, Burundi Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-24 10:13:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-21 16:48:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 3.468 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us7000bec2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bec2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bec2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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