A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Bandrele in Mayotte. Unique identifier: us1000ep6f. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ep6f. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 45.4793° East, -13.0476° South. The temblor was picked up at 03:10:22 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/06/18 / 2018-06-07 00:10:22 / June 7, 2018 @ 12:10 am.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mtsamboro, Acoua, Bandraboua. Country/countries that might be effected, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days ninety-four and in the last 365 days ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km ESE of Bandrele, Mayotte. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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