A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h5aj. Unique identifier: us1000h5aj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:58:31 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 45.3368 East, latitude -12.8234 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/10/18 / 2018-10-01 17:58:31 / October 1, 2018 @ 5:58 pm.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acoua, Mtsamboro, Bouéni (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 13 km (8 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 6 km ESE of Pamandzi, Mayotte.
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