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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, Myanmar-India border region


Earthquake location 24.5661S, 94.6695WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Myanmar-India border region kilometers (0 miles) from Myanmar-India border region. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 18:34:16 / September 17, 2015 @ 6:34 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 78.23 km (49 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 94.6695 East, latitude 24.5661 North, depth = 78.23 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:34:16 / 6:34 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20003kra. Event ids that are associated: us20003kra.

Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mayāng Imphāl (c. 22 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Moirāng (c. 17 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Yairipok (c. 8 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Wāngjing (c. 7 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moirāng, Mayāng Imphāl, Imphal (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.6695° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.5661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Myanmar-India border region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-17 18:34:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 20:44:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 354 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 2.739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us20003kra Id of event.
Event Code 20003kra An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003kra, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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