A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j52z. Unique identifier: us2000j52z. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 45.4946° East, -12.7555° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/12/18 / 2018-12-29 20:23:45 / December 29, 2018 @ 8:23 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:23:45 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bouéni, Kani Kéli, Acoua (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 26 km (16 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), 24 km (15 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 23 km E of Pamandzi, Mayotte.
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