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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Pamandzi in Mayotte


Earthquake location -12.9119S, 45.7582WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/05/18 / 2018-05-31 01:10:14 / May 31, 2018 @ 1:10 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 45.7582 East, latitude -12.9119 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:10:14 / 4:10 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000efa1. Unique identifier: us1000efa1.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acoua, Mtsamboro, M’Tsangamouji (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 53 km ESE of Pamandzi, Mayotte. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.7582° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.9119° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km ESE of Pamandzi, Mayotte Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-31 01:10:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-31 01:28:11 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 6.233 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us1000efa1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000efa1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000efa1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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