A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 45.3528 East, latitude -12.938 South, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us1000ehg0. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ehg0. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/06/18 / 2018-06-02 17:39:24 / June 2, 2018 @ 5:39 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:39:24 / 8:39 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mtsamboro, Acoua, Bandraboua. Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km SSE of Pamandzi, Mayotte. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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