A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ekha. Id of event: us1000ekha. 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: 03/06/18 / 2018-06-03 01:57:35 / June 3, 2018 @ 1:57 am. The temblor was picked up at 04:57:35 / 4:57 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 45.3973° East, latitude -12.9569° South, depth = 10 km.
Nearby country/countries, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mtsamboro, Acoua, Bandraboua (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 21 km SE of Pamandzi, Mayotte.
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