A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/02/19 / 2019-02-06 22:56:26 / February 6, 2019 @ 10:56 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jnbp. Unique identifier: us2000jnbp. Exact location of earthquake, 45.3052° East, -12.9028° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:56:26 / 1:56 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mtsamboro, Acoua, Bandraboua (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 12 km SSE of Pamandzi, Mayotte.
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