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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Seoni in India

Posted by admin on August 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.3148S, 76.9876WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Seoni in India. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.06 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/16 / 2016-08-01 13:38:32 / August 1, 2016 @ 1:38 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:08:32 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 76.9876 East, latitude 31.3148 North, depth = 35.06 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006acy. Id of event: us10006acy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Chandigarh (c. 960 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Shimla (c. 173 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Mohali (c. 123 500 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Sirhind (c. 60 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Rūpnagar (c. 52 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kharar (c. 45 700 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Nāngal Township (c. 44 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Banga, Sirhind, Nārāyangarh (min 5000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 15 km WNW of Seoni, India.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 76.9876° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3148° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WNW of Seoni, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-01 13:38:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-24 15:02:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 312 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 3.911 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us10006acy Id of event.
Event Code 10006acy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006acy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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