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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Pamandzi in Mayotte


Earthquake location -12.8573S, 45.6605WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Pamandzi in Mayotte on Monday. 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 13.32 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 13.32 km, 45.6605° East, -12.8573° South. Global time and date of event 04/06/18 / 2018-06-04 19:53:34 / June 4, 2018 @ 7:53 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 22:53:34 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000eil0. Event ids that are associated: us1000eil0.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Bandraboua (c. 7 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acoua, Mtsamboro, Bouéni. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km E of Pamandzi, Mayotte. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.6605° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.8573° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km 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 2018-06-04 19:53:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-04 20:12:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 370 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 6.308 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us1000eil0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000eil0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eil0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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