Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Kathmandu in Nepal

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Kathmandu in Nepal on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005hgq. Id of event: us10005hgq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.48 km (14 miles). Exact location of event, depth 22.48 km, 85.3181° East, 27.8199° North. The temblor was detected at 04:30:55 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/16 / 2016-05-14 22:45:55 / May 14, 2016 @ 10:45 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Kathmandu (c. 1 442 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Pātan (c. 183 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bharatpur (c. 107 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Hitura (c. 84 800 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Kirtipur (c. 44 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Panaoti (c. 27 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bharatpur, Hitura, Panaoti (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 13 km N of Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	85.3181° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	27.8199° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	22.48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km N of Kathmandu, Nepal	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-14 22:45:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-14 23:06:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	345	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.6	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	286	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	0.107	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	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	us10005hgq	Id of event.
Event Code	10005hgq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005hgq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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