A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/06/18 / 2018-06-02 07:42:26 / June 2, 2018 @ 7:42 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:42:26 / 10:42 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000ehb6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ehb6. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 45.6051 East, latitude -12.8795 South, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Acoua, Mtsamboro, M’Tsangamouji. Nearby country/countries, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days fourty-one 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.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km ESE of Pamandzi, Mayotte. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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