A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/06/18 / 2018-06-06 20:03:59 / June 6, 2018 @ 8:03 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000elcv. Event ids that are associated: us1000elcv. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:03:59 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 45.6299 East, latitude -12.8362 South, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Acoua, Mtsamboro, Bouéni. Close country/countries, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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