Magnitude 4.5 earthquake strikes near Birkirkara, Malta
4.5 quake 18 Jan 5:22 am (GMT +1)

Just 17 minutes ago, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck near Birkirkara, Malta. The tremor was recorded early morning on Wednesday, January 18th, 2023, at 5:22 am local time, at a shallow depth of 10 km below the surface.
The event was filed by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the first seismological agency to report it.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) which listed the quake at magnitude 4.7. Other agencies reporting the same quake include the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake at magnitude 4.5, and the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) at magnitude 4.6.
Towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Qrendi (pop. 2,500) located 105 km from the epicenter, Mqabba (pop. 2,900) 107 km away, Mdina (pop. 360) 109 km away, Qormi (pop. 18,200) 110 km away, Imtarfa (pop. 2,400) 110 km away, Paula (pop. 9,300) 110 km away, Birkirkara (pop. 21,700) 112 km away, and Senglea (pop. 3,000) 112 km away.
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Earthquake data:
Date & time: Jan 18, 2023 5:22 am (GMT +1) local time (18 Jan 2023 04:22 GMT)
Magnitude: 4.5
Depth: 10.0 km
Epicenterlatitude / longitude: 34.93°N / 14.12°E (Eastern Mediterranean, Malta)
Primary data source: GFZ
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