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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Port Mathurin in Mauritius


Earthquake location -23.5567S, 69.6107WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 771 km ESE of Port Mathurin, Mauritius (479 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/06/20 / 2020-06-14 16:02:48 / June 14, 2020 @ 4:02 pm. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:02:48 / 4:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 69.6107° East, -23.5567° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us6000abps. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000abps. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 771 km ESE of Port Mathurin, Mauritius.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.6107° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.5567° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 771 km ESE of Port Mathurin, Mauritius Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-14 16:02:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-14 16:27:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 385 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 13.052 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 59 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 us6000abps Id of event.
Event Code 6000abps An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000abps, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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