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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Mongar in Bhutan


Earthquake location 27.2728S, 91.2869WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Mongar in Bhutan. Event id: us20002xqe. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002xqe. The epicenter was at a depth of 35.46 km (22 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:42:40 / 8:42 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/07/15 / 2015-07-01 02:42:40 / July 1, 2015 @ 2:42 am. Exact location of event, longitude 91.2869 East, latitude 27.2728 North, depth = 35.46 km.

Close country/countries, Bhutan (c. 700 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Barpeta Road (c. 35 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Pemagatshel (c. 13 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Sorbhog (c. 7 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Samdrup Jongkhar (c. 7 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Jakar (c. 4 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Trashi Yangtse (c. 3 000 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Mongar (c. 3 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sorbhog, Barpeta Road, Trongsa.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km E of Mongar, Bhutan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 91.2869° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.2728° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km E of Mongar, Bhutan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-01 02:42:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-16 23:06:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 312 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 1.774 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us20002xqe Id of event.
Event Code 20002xqe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002xqe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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