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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Ak’ordat in Eritrea


Earthquake location 16.2568S, 37.446WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Ak’ordat in Eritrea on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/12/20 / 2020-12-24 22:22:45 / December 24, 2020 @ 10:22 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:22:45 / 10:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000d2qn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d2qn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 37.446 East, latitude 16.2568 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Eritrea (c. 5 793 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ak’ordat. Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Ak’ordat (c. 8 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 91 km NNW of Ak’ordat, Eritrea. 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 37.446° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.2568° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 km NNW of Ak’ordat, Eritrea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-24 22:22:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-24 22:49:57 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 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 7.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us6000d2qn Id of event.
Event Code 6000d2qn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d2qn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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