Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Chipoka in Malawi

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Chipoka in Malawi. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/25 / 2025-07-06 11:12:05 / July 6, 2025 @ 11:12 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 11:12:05 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000qd8p. Event ids that are associated: us7000qd8p. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 34.5792° East, -13.9331° South, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Lilongwe (c. 646 800 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Mangochi (c. 40 200 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Salima (c. 30 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Dedza (c. 15 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Monkey Bay (c. 11 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ntchisi (c. 7 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Dowa (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mangochi, Lilongwe, Ntchisi. Close country/countries, Malawi (c. 15 448 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 9 km NE of Chipoka, Malawi.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	34.5792° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-13.9331° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km NE of Chipoka, Malawi	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-06 11:12:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-29 13:10:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	326	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	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.329	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us7000qd8p	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qd8p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qd8p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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