Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Pamandzi in Mayotte

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Earthquake location -12.9263S, 45.3469W A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000eekd. Event ids that are associated: us1000eekd. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/05/18 / 2018-05-25 17:08:30 / May 25, 2018 @ 5:08 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 45.3469° East, -12.9263° South, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:08:30 / 8:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mtsamboro, Acoua, Bandraboua (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop). The epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days seventy and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km SSE of Pamandzi, Mayotte.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	45.3469° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-12.9263° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km SSE 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	2018-05-25 17:08:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-13 20:22:34	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	312	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	6.321	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us1000eekd	Id of event.
Event Code	1000eekd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000eekd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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