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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Pamandzi in Mayotte

Posted by admin on October 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -12.8425S, 45.4475WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/09/18 / 2018-09-29 18:27:07 / September 29, 2018 @ 6:27 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000h7hx. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h7hx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 45.4475 East, latitude -12.8425 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 21:27:07 / 9:27 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acoua, Mtsamboro, Bouéni (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 18 km ESE of Pamandzi, Mayotte.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.4475° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.8425° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km 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 2018-09-29 18:27:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-23 18:39:39 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 5.936 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 80 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 us1000h7hx Id of event.
Event Code 1000h7hx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h7hx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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