A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Nsanje in Malawi. Exact location of earthquake, 35.4839° East, -17.0208° South, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 25/08/15 / 2015-08-25 17:40:36 / August 25, 2015 @ 5:40 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us100034wn. Ids that are associated to the event: us100034wn. The temblor was reported at 19:40:36 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nsanje (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Nsanje (c. 21 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Malawi (c. 15 448 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km ESE of Nsanje, Malawi.
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