A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Bandrele in Mayotte. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/01/19 / 2019-01-20 14:06:41 / January 20, 2019 @ 2:06 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 17:06:41 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jc1b. Unique identifier: us2000jc1b. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 45.3969° East, -13.0915° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mtsamboro, Acoua, Bandraboua (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 30 km SE of Bandrele, Mayotte. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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