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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Pamandzi in Mayotte

Posted by admin on June 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -12.8431S, 45.5057WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/05/18 / 2018-05-26 21:32:29 / May 26, 2018 @ 9:32 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 00:32:29 / 12:32 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ees4. Id of event: us1000ees4. Exact location of event, longitude 45.5057 East, latitude -12.8431 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Acoua, Mtsamboro, Bouéni.

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days seventy-four, in the past 30 days eighty-three and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 24 km ESE of Pamandzi, Mayotte.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.5057° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.8431° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km ESE 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 2018-05-26 21:32:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-22 23:21:22 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 5.92 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us1000ees4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ees4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ees4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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