Light earthquake 4 mag, 180 km SSE of Port Blair, India

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 180 km SSE of Port Blair, India (112 miles). Id of earthquake: us10004ude. Event ids that are associated: us10004ude. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 127.6 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 127.6 km, 93.6503° East, 10.2974° North. Global time and date of event 28/02/16 / 2016-02-28 23:11:03 / February 28, 2016 @ 11:11 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 05:11:03 / 5:11 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six 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.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 180 km SSE of Port Blair, India.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	93.6503° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.2974° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	127.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	180km SSE of Port Blair, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-28 23:11:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-14 00:35:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	360	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	246	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	1.616	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	us10004ude	Id of event.
Event Code	10004ude	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004ude,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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