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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Al Aḩmadī in Kuwait

Posted by admin on November 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.9439S, 47.7158WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Al Aḩmadī in Kuwait. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 11/11/20 / 2020-11-11 14:56:24 / November 11, 2020 @ 2:56 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:56:24 / 2:56 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000cdef. Event ids that are associated: us7000cdef. Exact location of event, longitude 47.7158 East, latitude 28.9439 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Al Khafjī, Az Zawr, As Sālimīyah. Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from (c. 637 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from (c. 164 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from As Sālimīyah (c. 147 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from (c. 139 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Al Farwānīyah (c. 86 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from (c. 68 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Kuwait City (c. 60 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Kuwait (c. 2 789 000 pop).

Every 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 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 have been detected 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. 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: 38 km WSW of Al Aḩmadī, Kuwait.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 47.7158° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.9439° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km WSW of Al Aḩmadī, Kuwait Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-11 14:56:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-11 22:02:19 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 2 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 326 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 3.069 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us7000cdef Id of event.
Event Code 7000cdef An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cdef, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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