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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Dipayal in Nepal

Posted by admin on August 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.3931S, 81.1053WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Dipayal in Nepal. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 22/08/17 / 2017-08-22 00:50:36 / August 22, 2017 @ 12:50 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 06:35:36 / 6:35 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000aah5. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000aah5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 81.1053° East, 29.3931° North, depth 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (56 miles) from Dhangarhi (c. 92 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Mahendranagar (c. 88 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Pithorāgarh (c. 47 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Dipayal (c. 23 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Dailekh (c. 20 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Dadeldhurā (c. 19 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Dārchulā (c. 18 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mahendranagar, Dhangarhi, Pithorāgarh. Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 nearby. 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. 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: 21 km NE of Dipayal, Nepal.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 81.1053° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.3931° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NE of Dipayal, Nepal Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-22 00:50:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-22 01:41:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 345 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 326 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 7.921 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us2000aah5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000aah5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aah5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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