Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 6 km ENE of Pamandzi, Mayotte

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Earthquake location -12.7665S, 45.3371W A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte on Thursday. Event id: us2000jnck. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jnck. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 45.3371° East, -12.7665° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 07/02/19 / 2019-02-07 15:21:55 / February 7, 2019 @ 3:21 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:21:55 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kani Kéli, Bouéni, Acoua (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 12 km (7 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 24 km (15 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 three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 ENE of Pamandzi, Mayotte.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	45.3371° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-12.7665° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km ENE 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	2019-02-07 15:21:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-26 21:48:50	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	6.039	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	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	us2000jnck	Id of event.
Event Code	2000jnck	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000jnck,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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