Quakedle
Puzzle #30 was 52 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M5.7 — moderate class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 8.0 km — shallow
- Region
- The East African Rift
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 211 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- green PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- African Plate · Somali Plate
- Tectonic context
- Continental extension across the East African Rift is slowly separating the Somali Plate from the rest of Africa.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M5.7. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Moderate (M5.0–5.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 8.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “52 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia”. Which broad authored region matches?
- The East African Rift
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- Is this the largest earthquake in the supplied USGS week comparison?
- No — at least one supplied week event has a higher magnitude.