Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Kathmandu in Nepal

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Kathmandu in Nepal. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002mxq. Unique identifier: us10002mxq. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/07/15 / 2015-07-02 01:56:11 / July 2, 2015 @ 1:56 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 85.2992° East, 27.749° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:41:11 / 7:41 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 6 km (4 miles) from Kathmandu (c. 1 442 300 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Pātan (c. 183 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bīrganj (c. 133 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Bharatpur (c. 107 200 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Hitura (c. 84 800 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Kirtipur (c. 44 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bīrganj, Bharatpur, Hitura.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km NNW of Kathmandu, Nepal. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	85.2992° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	27.749° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km NNW of Kathmandu, Nepal	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-02 01:56:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-02 02:16:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	345	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	272	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	0.039	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us10002mxq	Id of event.
Event Code	10002mxq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002mxq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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