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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Nongstoin in India


Earthquake location 25.6263S, 90.8833WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Nongstoin in India. Exact location of earthquake, 90.8833° East, 25.6263° North, depth 31.19 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008na7. Unique identifier: us10008na7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 21:44:55 / 9:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.19 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/04/17 / 2017-04-25 16:14:55 / April 25, 2017 @ 4:14 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Soalkuchi, Cherrapunji, Howli. Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Netrakona (c. 79 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tura (c. 63 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Goālpāra (c. 50 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Barpeta (c. 48 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Nongstoin (c. 25 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Chāpar (c. 19 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 40 km WNW of Nongstoin, India.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 90.8833° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.6263° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km WNW of Nongstoin, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-25 16:14:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-11 13:53:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 286 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 0.88 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us10008na7 Id of event.
Event Code 10008na7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008na7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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