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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Ikungi in Tanzania

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Ikungi in Tanzania on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/12/25 / 2025-12-29 09:51:40 / December 29, 2025 @ 9:51 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rlc1. Id of event: us7000rlc1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:51:40 / 9:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 35.1013° East, -5.3962° South.

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Singida (c. 62 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Mtinko (c. 26 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Sepuka (c. 25 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kondoa (c. 23 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Itigi (c. 19 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Ikungi (c. 19 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ilongero (c. 17 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mtinko, Sepuka, Kondoa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 47 km SE of Ikungi, Tanzania.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	35.1013° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.3962° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 km SE of Ikungi, Tanzania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-29 09:51:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-29 10:31:26	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	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.209	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	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	us7000rlc1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000rlc1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rlc1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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