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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Ambanja in Madagascar


Earthquake location -13.8965S, 48.9282WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Ambanja in Madagascar. Event id: us60003r15. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60003r15. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/05/19 / 2019-05-23 06:30:19 / May 23, 2019 @ 6:30 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 48.9282° East, latitude -13.8965° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 09:30:19 / 9:30 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Madagascar (c. 21 282 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Antsohimbondrona, Hell-Ville, Ambilobe (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Ambilobe (c. 56 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Antsohimbondrona (c. 32 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Ambanja (c. 30 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Hell-Ville (c. 22 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bealanana (c. 16 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ambarakaraka (c. 16 100 pop).

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 occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 56 km ESE of Ambanja, Madagascar. 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 48.9282° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.8965° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km ESE of Ambanja, Madagascar Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-23 06:30:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-23 07:00:28 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 5.347 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us60003r15 Id of event.
Event Code 60003r15 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003r15, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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