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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Kodari in Nepal

Posted by admin on February 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 27.8205S, 85.7593WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Kodari in Nepal. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 85.7593 East, latitude 27.8205 North, depth = 10 km. 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: us10004sb7. Unique identifier: us10004sb7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/02/16 / 2016-02-24 09:22:16 / February 24, 2016 @ 9:22 am. The temblor was reported at 15:07:16 / 3:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hitura, Kirtipur, Pātan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Kathmandu (c. 1 442 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Pātan (c. 183 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hitura (c. 84 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kirtipur (c. 44 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Panaoti (c. 27 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Banepa (c. 17 200 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hari Bdr Tamang House (c. 10 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 23 km SW of Kodari, Nepal.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 85.7593° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.8205° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km SW of Kodari, Nepal Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-24 09:22:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-24 09:39:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 345 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 343 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 0.407 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 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 us10004sb7 Id of event.
Event Code 10004sb7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004sb7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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