Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake strikes near Barpeta Road in India

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (mg/mb) has occurred on Monday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Barpeta Road in India. The temblor was reported at 10:56:59 / 10:56 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time of event 2014-12-29 05:26:59 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 91.1782 East, latitude 26.6533 North, depth 10 km.

Close countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Guwahati (c. 899 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Bongaigaon (c. 64 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Goālpāra (c. 50 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Barpeta (c. 48 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Barpeta Road (c. 35 300 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mangaldai, Dispur, Chāpar.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	91.1782° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	26.6533° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km NE of Barpeta Road, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2014-12-29 17:26:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2014-12-30 00:44:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	330	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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		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	237	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	3.038	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	161	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	usc000taqh	Id of event.
Event Code	c000taqh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	usc000taqh	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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