A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte. Exact location of earthquake, 45.5673° East, -13.0274° South, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000ekwe. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ekwe. The temblor was detected at 06:31:30 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/06/18 / 2018-06-08 03:31:30 / June 8, 2018 @ 3:31 am.
Nearby country/countries, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mtsamboro, Acoua, M’Tsangamouji (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 46 km (28 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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