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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Nsanje in Malawi


Earthquake location -16.76S, 35.3882WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Nsanje in Malawi. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/03/18 / 2018-03-17 15:12:22 / March 17, 2018 @ 3:12 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 17:12:22 / 5:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 35.3882 East, latitude -16.76 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d5ni. Id of event: us1000d5ni.

The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Nsanje (c. 21 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Mulanje (c. 16 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Luchenza (c. 11 900 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Chikwawa (c. 7 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Thyolo (c. 5 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Malawi (c. 15 448 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chikwawa, Luchenza, Mulanje (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 22 km NE of Nsanje, Malawi.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.3882° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.76° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NE of Nsanje, Malawi Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-17 15:12:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-17 16:02:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 371 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 7.078 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.42 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 us1000d5ni Id of event.
Event Code 1000d5ni An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d5ni, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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