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Magnitude 4.5 - LAKE TANGANYIKA REGION

2008 June 19 07:25:16 UTC

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Magnitude

4.5

Date-Time

Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 07:25:16 UTC

Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 09:25:16 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location

4.626°S, 29.564°E

Depth

10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program

Region

LAKE TANGANYIKA REGION

Distances

25 km (15 miles) N of Kigoma, Tanzania
140 km (85 miles) S
of BUJUMBURA, Burundi
885 km (550 miles) WSW of NAIROBI,
Kenya
1110 km (690 miles) WNW of DAR ES SALAAM,
Tanzania

Location
Uncertainty

horizontal +/- 13.5 km (8.4 miles); depth fixed by location
program

Parameters

NST= 12, Nph= 12, Dmin=937.1 km, Rmss=0.76 sec,
Gp=122°,
M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=6

Source

USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event
ID

us2008tlaw

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