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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Betafo in Madagascar

Posted by admin on January 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.1666S, 46.6414WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Betafo in Madagascar. Id of earthquake: us10007snb. Event ids that are associated: us10007snb. The temblor was detected at 01:07:00 / 1:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 46.6414 East, latitude -20.1666 South, depth = 14.61 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.61 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/17 / 2017-01-11 22:07:00 / January 11, 2017 @ 10:07 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Antsirabe (c. 186 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Antanifotsy (c. 70 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Faratsiho (c. 37 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Fandriana (c. 31 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Ambositra (c. 30 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Betafo (c. 29 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Miandrarivo (c. 27 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ikalamavony, Faratsiho, Antanifotsy. Nearby country/countries, Madagascar (c. 21 282 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 42 km SSW of Betafo, Madagascar.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 46.6414° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1666° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SSW of Betafo, Madagascar Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-11 22:07:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-11 22:25:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 450 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 1.269 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 41 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 us10007snb Id of event.
Event Code 10007snb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007snb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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