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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Serchhip in India


Earthquake location 23.1201S, 92.7926WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Serchhip in India. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:59:09 / 11:59 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007gsu. Id of event: us20007gsu. Exact location of event, depth 41.93 km, 92.7926° East, 23.1201° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/10/16 / 2016-10-26 06:29:09 / October 26, 2016 @ 6:29 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 41.93 km (26 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Aizawl (c. 265 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Lunglei (c. 52 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Khagrachhari (c. 50 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Saiha (c. 22 700 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Serchhīp (c. 20 200 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Sāitlaw (c. 11 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hakha, Sāitlaw, Mamit. Close country/countries that might be effected, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 20 km SSW of Serchhip, India.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.7926° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.1201° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SSW of Serchhip, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-26 06:29:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-26 06:46:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 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 340 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 0.883 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us20007gsu Id of event.
Event Code 20007gsu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007gsu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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