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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Bamboo Flat in India


Earthquake location 12.8909S, 92.492WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 133 km N of Bamboo Flat, India (83 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006s0d. Unique identifier: us10006s0d. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/09/16 / 2016-09-16 05:18:49 / September 16, 2016 @ 5:18 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.95 km (19 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 92.492 East, latitude 12.8909 North, depth = 29.95 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:18:49 / 11:18 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 133 km N of Bamboo Flat, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.492° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8909° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 133km N of Bamboo Flat, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-16 05:18:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-13 09:55:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 284 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 1.252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us10006s0d Id of event.
Event Code 10006s0d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006s0d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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