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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 21 km W of Mezzouna, Tunisia


Earthquake location 34.5951S, 9.6061WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Mezzouna in Tunisia. Global time and date of event 03/02/25 / 2025-02-03 09:45:05 / February 3, 2025 @ 9:45 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pazv. Unique identifier: us7000pazv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 9.6061° East, 34.5951° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:45:05 / 9:45 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Gabès (c. 110 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kasserine (c. 82 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Gafsa (c. 81 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from El Hamma (c. 62 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Sidi Bouzid (c. 42 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Skhira (c. 9 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from As Sanad (c. 7 900 pop). Close country/countries, Tunisia (c. 10 589 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kasserine, Gabès, El Hamma.

Each 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 21 km W of Mezzouna, Tunisia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 9.6061° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.5951° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km W of Mezzouna, Tunisia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-03 09:45:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-03 10:05:00 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 354 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 82 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pazv Id of event.
Event Code 7000pazv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pazv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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