A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte. Global time and date of event 09/02/19 / 2019-02-09 07:13:41 / February 9, 2019 @ 7:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 45.2553 East, latitude -12.8615 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us2000jflj. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jflj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:13:41 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mramani, Mtsamboro, Acoua (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 9 km (6 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop).
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 three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SSW of Pamandzi, Mayotte. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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