A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Jubbal in India. Unique identifier: us10006j3q. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006j3q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:08:07 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/08/16 / 2016-08-27 03:38:07 / August 27, 2016 @ 3:38 am. Exact location of event, longitude 77.7253 East, latitude 31.1179 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dehradun, Nārāyangarh, Baddi (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Dehradun (c. 522 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Shimla (c. 173 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Solan (c. 40 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kālka (c. 32 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pinjaur (c. 32 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Nāhan (c. 27 500 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km E of Jubbal, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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