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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 8 km E of Pamandzi, Mayotte

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Earthquake location -12.7993S, 45.3631WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte on Friday. Id of earthquake: us2000jnza. Event ids that are associated: us2000jnza. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:57:39 / 1:57 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/02/19 / 2019-02-15 10:57:39 / February 15, 2019 @ 10:57 am. Exact location of event, longitude 45.3631 East, latitude -12.7993 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Acoua, Mtsamboro, Bouéni. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop). The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 seven, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km E of Pamandzi, Mayotte.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.3631° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.7993° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km E 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 2019-02-15 10:57:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-13 08:32:04 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 6.001 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us2000jnza Id of event.
Event Code 2000jnza An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jnza, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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