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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Nagarkot in Nepal

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Nagarkot in Nepal on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 10:00:53 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 85.6559° East, latitude 27.9259° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us10003zfw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zfw. Global time and date of event 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 04:15:53 / November 19, 2015 @ 4:15 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Kathmandu (c. 1 442 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Pātan (c. 183 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Hitura (c. 84 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Kirtipur (c. 44 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Panaoti (c. 27 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Banepa (c. 17 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hari Bdr Tamang House (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hitura, Kirtipur, Pātan. Country/countries that might be effected, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate 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 two hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 26 km NNE of Nagarkot, Nepal.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	85.6559° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	27.9259° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km NNE of Nagarkot, Nepal	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-11-19 04:15:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-19 04:29:29	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	3.8	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	387	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	0.368	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us10003zfw	Id of event.
Event Code	10003zfw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003zfw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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