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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Kathmandu in Nepal

Posted by admin on August 11, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 27.6861S, 85.3291WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Kathmandu in Nepal. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.36 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 6.36 km, 85.3291° East, 27.6861° North. Id of earthquake: us1000311d. Event ids that are associated: us1000311d. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/08/15 / 2015-08-11 04:57:41 / August 11, 2015 @ 4:57 am. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:42:41 / 10:42 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hitura, Panaoti, Banepa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 2 km (1 miles) from Kathmandu (c. 1 442 300 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from Pātan (c. 183 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Hitura (c. 84 800 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Kirtipur (c. 44 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Panaoti (c. 27 600 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Banepa (c. 17 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 1 km SSE of Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 85.3291° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.6861° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSE 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 2015-08-11 04:57:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-11 05:19:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 345 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 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 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 201 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 0.028 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 247 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 us1000311d Id of event.
Event Code 1000311d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000311d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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