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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 5 km WSW of Mbala, Zambia


Earthquake location -8.8686S, 31.3212WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Mbala in Zambia on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000d1xc. Unique identifier: us7000d1xc. Exact location of earthquake, 31.3212° East, -8.8686° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:47:03 / 4:47 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/01/21 / 2021-01-21 04:47:03 / January 21, 2021 @ 4:47 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Laela, Matai, Mpulungu. Nearby country/countries, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop), Zambia (c. 13 460 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (41 miles) from Matai (c. 24 100 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Mbala (c. 20 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Laela (c. 19 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Mpulungu (c. 8 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 5 km WSW of Mbala, Zambia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 31.3212° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.8686° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km WSW of Mbala, Zambia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-21 04:47:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-21 05:00:35 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 8.232 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 149 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 us7000d1xc Id of event.
Event Code 7000d1xc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d1xc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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