Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Lakhipur in India

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Lakhipur in India. Event id: us10004c4z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004c4z. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:55:13 / 3:55 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 58.15 km (36 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/16 / 2016-01-06 10:25:13 / January 6, 2016 @ 10:25 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 93.4003 East, latitude 24.8896 North, depth = 58.15 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hailākāndi, Lāla, Badarpur (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Silchar (c. 152 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Churāchāndpur (c. 47 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Hāflong (c. 40 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Hailākāndi (c. 31 000 pop).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 40 km ENE of Lakhipur, India.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	93.4003° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.8896° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58.15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km ENE of Lakhipur, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-06 10:25:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-31 12:06:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	330	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	284	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	1.552	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77	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	us10004c4z	Id of event.
Event Code	10004c4z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004c4z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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