2 relatively strong earthquakes in the border area in between Tanzania and Kenya

Last update: June 3, 2013 at 10:44 am by By Ashish Khanal

Update 10:48 UTC : The video below gives a good impression of the strange crater of the Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano.

Update 10:26 UTC : We invite Tanzanian and/or Kenyan people with a view on Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, to tell us that the volcano did not show sgns of additional activity as we see both earthquakes very close to the volcano. The second one has an epicenter on the slopes o the volcano !

Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano – Image courtesy and copyright SteveAxford

Only 1 reported earthquake by the seismological agencies, but in fact people are reporting 2 quakes being felt in Nairobi.
The earthquake struck in the Lake Natron area.
As depth is given 10 km which corresponds internationally as “we are not sure at all”.
Please keep also in mind that there is always an error margin in pointing the location of the epicenter. All this to tell that this earthquake will be probably tectonic but there is always a chance that the quake can be linked to the nearby volcano.

Seismogram image courtesy Geofon, Germany

174 km SW of Nairobi, Kenya / pop: 2,750,547 / local time: 06:24:45.4 2013-06-03
107 km NW of Arusha, Tanzania / pop: 341,136 / local time: 06:24:45.4 2013-06-03
73 km W of Longido, Tanzania / pop: 9,403 / local time: 06:24:45.4 2013-06-03

Most important Earthquake Data:

Magnitude : 4.6

Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2013-06-03 06:24:45

GMT/UTC Time : 2013-06-03 03:24:45

Depth (Hypocenter)  : 10 km

from:    http://earthquake-report.com/2013/06/03/moderate-earthquake-tanzania-on-june-3-2013-2/