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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Khonsa in India


Earthquake location 26.4644S, 96.5118WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 112 km ESE of Khonsa, India (70 miles) on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/07/15 / 2015-07-13 11:03:03 / July 13, 2015 @ 11:03 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 101.35 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 101.35 km, 96.5118° East, 26.4644° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002x3y. Id of event: us20002x3y. The temblor was reported at 17:33:03 / 5:33 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 112 km ESE of Khonsa, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.5118° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.4644° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km ESE of Khonsa, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-13 11:03:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-25 12:15:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 4.283 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us20002x3y Id of event.
Event Code 20002x3y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002x3y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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