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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Ambanja in Madagascar

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A 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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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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