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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Ramechhap in Nepal

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Ramechhap in Nepal. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 13:18:22 / 1:18 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us10003kcl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003kcl. Global time and date of event 05/10/15 / 2015-10-05 07:33:22 / October 5, 2015 @ 7:33 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 86.075° East, latitude 27.6148° North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Kathmandu (c. 1 442 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Pātan (c. 183 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kirtipur (c. 44 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Panaoti (c. 27 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Banepa (c. 17 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hari Bdr Tamang House (c. 10 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from kankrabari Dovan (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lobujya, Kirtipur, Pātan.

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 one hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. 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: 32 km N of Ramechhap, Nepal.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	86.075° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	27.6148° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km N of Ramechhap, Nepal	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-10-05 07:33:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-05 10:38:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	345	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	0.68	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	155	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	us10003kcl	Id of event.
Event Code	10003kcl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003kcl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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