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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Dzaoudzi in Mayotte


Earthquake location -12.7718S, 45.2625WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Dzaoudzi in Mayotte on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/19 / 2019-01-09 17:42:38 / January 9, 2019 @ 5:42 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000j8t1. Event ids that are associated: us2000j8t1. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 45.2625 East, latitude -12.7718 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 20:42:38 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mramani, Kani Kéli, Bouéni (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mayotte (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 4 km (2 miles) from Mamoudzou (c. 54 800 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Koungou (c. 18 100 pop), 1 km (1 miles) from Dzaoudzi (c. 15 300 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Dembeni (c. 10 100 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Sada (c. 9 800 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Pamandzi (c. 9 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 1 km NE of Dzaoudzi, Mayotte.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.2625° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.7718° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NE of Dzaoudzi, Mayotte Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-09 17:42:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-06 17:24:01 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 271 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 6.056 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us2000j8t1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j8t1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j8t1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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