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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake strikes near Mirik in India

Posted by admin on April 27, 2015 2 Comments

Earthquake location 26.8594S, 88.1414WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (mg/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Mirik in India. The temblor was reported at 18:20:57 / 6:20 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 67.11 km (42 miles). Global time of event 27/04/15 / 2015-04-27 12:35:57 / April 27, 2015 @ 12:35 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 88.1414 East, latitude 26.8594 North, depth 67.11 km, unique identifier, us200029k7.

Close countries, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop). The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Shiliguri (c. 515 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Birātnagar (c. 182 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Dārjiling (c. 123 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Dharān Bāzār (c. 108 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Jalpāiguri (c. 107 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Kishanganj (c. 94 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Thākurgaon (c. 71 100 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shahbazpur, Jogbani, Birpara.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 88.1414° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.8594° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SW of Mirik, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-04-27 12:35:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-27 13:02:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 345 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 27 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 412 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 3.576 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us200029k7 Id of event.
Event Code 200029k7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200029k7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Ahsan Shahrier Rahib

    omg… felt from Dhaka ! :/

    April 27, 2015
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  2. মিনহাজুল আবেদীন

    this earthquake was felt from bangladesh :O

    April 27, 2015
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