A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 45.5604 East, latitude -12.7739 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fwam. Id of event: us2000fwam. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:25:21 / 12:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/18 / 2018-07-03 21:25:21 / July 3, 2018 @ 9:25 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acoua, Bouéni, Mtsamboro.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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. 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: 30 km E of Pamandzi, Mayotte.
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