A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Nkhotakota in Malawi. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:17:23 / 6:17 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/04/18 / 2018-04-23 16:17:23 / April 23, 2018 @ 4:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 34.376° East, latitude -12.4428° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us1000dvz4. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dvz4.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Malawi (c. 15 448 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Nkhotakota (c. 24 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nkhata Bay (c. 11 700 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 occurred nearby.
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