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Largest Earthquake since May hits Mayotte Island on 11-20-18 (mag=5.1)
Scientists still don’t know what’s causing the “seismic swarms” to the east of Mayotte Island. That’s just a fancy name for a series of minor earthquake clustered in the same area, according to the USGS. But only 12 days after the 11-11-18 event occurred that mystified National Geographic scientists (see link), another seismic event occurred near the area—the biggest since May:
“It was just one week ago that France’s Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), the geological agency for Mayotte, issued an updated report on the science behind a seismic swarm that’s been affecting the Indian Ocean island for more than six months.And then, on Tuesday morning, came a jolting reminder that it’s not over yet, with a 5.1-magnitude earthquake at 8:11 a.m. local time. It was the largest since June 27, and the latest since the swarm began on May 10, creating hundreds of small and frequent quakes – and a few larger ones.
A magnitude-5.8 earthquake, the largest ever recorded in the Comoros basin, struck just off the coast on May 15. Mayotte is part of the Comoros group of islands but remains a French territory, located at the northern edge of the Mozambique Channel between the southern African mainland and Madagascar.”
https://africatimes.com/2018/11/27/jolt-in-mayotte-serves-to-remind-that-seismic-swarm-continues/
See also:
“https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/strange-earthquake-waves-rippled-around-world-earth-geology/
Mayotte digg, con.t
Largest Earthquake since hits Mayotte Island on 11-20-18 (mag.=5.1)
Scientists still don’t know what’s causing the “seismic swarms” to the east of Mayotte Island. That’s just a fancy name for a series of minor earthquake clustered in the same area, according to the USGS. But only 12 days after the 11-11-18 event occurred that mystified National Geographic scientists (see link), another seismic event occurred near the area—the biggest since May:
“It was just one week ago that France’s Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), the geological agency for Mayotte, issued an updated report on the science behind a seismic swarm that’s been affecting the Indian Ocean island for more than six months.And then, on Tuesday morning, came a jolting reminder that it’s not over yet, with a 5.1-magnitude earthquake at 8:11 a.m. local time. It was the largest since June 27, and the latest since the swarm began on May 10, creating hundreds of small and frequent quakes – and a few larger ones.
A magnitude-5.8 earthquake, the largest ever recorded in the Comoros basin, struck just off the coast on May 15. Mayotte is part of the Comoros group of islands but remains a French territory, located at the northern edge of the Mozambique Channel between the southern African mainland and Madagascar.”
https://africatimes.com/2018/11/27/jolt-in-mayotte-serves-to-remind-that-seismic-swarm-continues/
See also:
“https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/strange-earthquake-waves-rippled-around-world-earth-geology/