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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Bamboo Flat in India


Earthquake location 11.6348S, 92.1878WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Bamboo Flat in India. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/03/17 / 2017-03-01 16:21:05 / March 1, 2017 @ 4:21 pm. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:21:05 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 92.1878° East, latitude 11.6348° North, depth = 32.27 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 32.27 km (20 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008848. Unique identifier: us10008848.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Port Blair (c. 112 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Bamboo Flat (c. 7 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port Blair, Bamboo Flat (min 5000 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 58 km W of Bamboo Flat, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.1878° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.6348° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km W 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 2017-03-01 16:21:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-14 21:49:15 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 259 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 0.545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us10008848 Id of event.
Event Code 10008848 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008848, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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