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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 286 km ESE of Ilha de Mocambique, Mozambique


Earthquake location -16.3747S, 43.0231WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 286 km ESE of Ilha de Mocambique, Mozambique (178 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/11/16 / 2016-11-27 16:13:54 / November 27, 2016 @ 4:13 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.45 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10007csa. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007csa. The temblor was picked up at 19:13:54 / 7:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 43.0231° East, -16.3747° South, depth 15.45 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 286 km ESE of Ilha de Mocambique, Mozambique. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 43.0231° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.3747° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 286km ESE of Ilha de Mocambique, Mozambique Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-27 16:13:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-27 16:44:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 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 340 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.793 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us10007csa Id of event.
Event Code 10007csa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007csa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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