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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Port Mathurin in Mauritius


Earthquake location -18.6694S, 65.1637WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 215 km ENE of Port Mathurin, Mauritius (134 miles). Exact location, longitude 65.1637° East, latitude -18.6694° South, depth = 10 km. Event id: us2000hjne. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hjne. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/09/18 / 2018-09-25 09:20:58 / September 25, 2018 @ 9:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:20:58 / 1:20 pm (local time epicenter).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 215 km ENE of Port Mathurin, Mauritius.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 65.1637° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.6694° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 215km ENE of Port Mathurin, Mauritius Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-25 09:20:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-25 09:42:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 240 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 354 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 2.009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us2000hjne Id of event.
Event Code 2000hjne An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hjne, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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