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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Pemba in Mozambique


Earthquake location -13.1369S, 41.0362WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Pemba in Mozambique. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008kzj. Unique identifier: us70008kzj. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:18:13 / 1:18 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/04/20 / 2020-04-01 22:18:13 / April 1, 2020 @ 10:18 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 41.0362 East, latitude -13.1369 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mozambique (c. 22 061 000 pop). Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Pemba (c. 108 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pemba.

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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 59 km ESE of Pemba, Mozambique.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 41.0362° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.1369° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km ESE of Pemba, Mozambique Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-01 22:18:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-01 22:38:24 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 354 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 8.342 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us70008kzj Id of event.
Event Code 70008kzj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008kzj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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