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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 35 km NNW of Baniachang, Bangladesh

Posted by admin on October 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.8107S, 91.2245WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Baniachang in Bangladesh. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.29 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20007fac. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007fac. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:20:49 / 1:20 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/10/16 / 2016-10-19 07:20:49 / October 19, 2016 @ 7:20 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 91.2245 East, latitude 24.8107 North, depth = 30.29 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Sylhet (c. 237 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Mymensingh (c. 225 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bhairab Bāzār (c. 105 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kishorganj (c. 90 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Habiganj (c. 88 800 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Netrakona (c. 79 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mairang, Kamalpur, Khowai (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 three 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 35 km NNW of Baniachang, Bangladesh.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 91.2245° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8107° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km NNW of Baniachang, Bangladesh Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-19 07:20:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-20 21:54:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 298 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 0.945 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us20007fac Id of event.
Event Code 20007fac An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fac, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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