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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Gaibandha in Bangladesh


Earthquake location 25.4098S, 89.523WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Gaibandha in Bangladesh. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:21:57 / 1:21 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us100035vn. Unique identifier: us100035vn. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/08/15 / 2015-08-28 19:21:57 / August 28, 2015 @ 7:21 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.4 km (8 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 89.523 East, latitude 25.4098 North, depth = 12.4 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dinājpur, Pār Naogaon, Gauripur. Nearby country/countries, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Rangpur (c. 343 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Bogra (c. 210 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Dinājpur (c. 206 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Saidpur (c. 199 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Pār Naogaon (c. 192 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Jamālpur (c. 167 900 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km NNW of Gaibandha, Bangladesh.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 89.523° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.4098° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NNW of Gaibandha, Bangladesh Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-28 19:21:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-29 14:41:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 271 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 2.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us100035vn Id of event.
Event Code 100035vn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100035vn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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