Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Livingstonia in Malawi

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Livingstonia in Malawi. Exact location of event, longitude 34.1985 East, latitude -10.5999 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us6000mwci. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mwci. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:05:39 / 6:05 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/05/24 / 2024-05-04 18:05:39 / May 4, 2024 @ 6:05 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Malawi (c. 15 448 000 pop), Tanzania (c. 41 893 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (49 miles) from Karonga (c. 34 200 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Kigonsera (c. 22 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Rumphi (c. 20 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Matiri (c. 18 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Liuli (c. 13 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Manda (c. 8 400 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Livingstonia (c. 5 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kigonsera, Karonga, Matiri (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km E of Livingstonia, Malawi.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	34.1985° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.5999° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km E of Livingstonia, Malawi	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-04 18:05:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-05 20:31:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	313	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	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	10.511	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	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	us6000mwci	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mwci	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mwci,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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