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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Khonsa in India


Earthquake location 26.5165S, 96.4472WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 103 km ESE of Khonsa, India (64 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/05/16 / 2016-05-27 05:03:11 / May 27, 2016 @ 5:03 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74.83 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:33:11 / 11:33 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 96.4472° East, latitude 26.5165° North, depth = 74.83 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005yf1. Id of event: us20005yf1.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 103 km ESE of Khonsa, India.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.4472° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.5165° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km ESE of Khonsa, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-27 05:03:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-27 05:59:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 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 326 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 4.237 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us20005yf1 Id of event.
Event Code 20005yf1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005yf1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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