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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Makueni in Kenya

Posted by admin on August 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.0422S, 37.6395WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Makueni in Kenya. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/18 / 2018-08-08 16:51:11 / August 8, 2018 @ 4:51 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000g5if. Unique identifier: us1000g5if. Exact location, longitude 37.6395° East, latitude -2.0422° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:51:11 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Machakos (c. 32 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Makueni (c. 20 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Wote (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Machakos, Wote, Makueni. Close country/countries that might be effected, Kenya (c. 40 047 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km S of Makueni, Kenya. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 37.6395° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.0422° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km S of Makueni, Kenya Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-08 16:51:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-08 22:18:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 178 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 0.511 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000g5if Id of event.
Event Code 1000g5if An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g5if, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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