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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Phek in India


Earthquake location 25.0488S, 94.7848WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Phek in India. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:18:34 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/10/17 / 2017-10-03 13:48:34 / October 3, 2017 @ 1:48 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000b0gm. Unique identifier: us2000b0gm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.7848 East, latitude 25.0488 North, depth = 74.86 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 74.86 km (47 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Phek (c. 15 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Yairipok (c. 8 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Wāngjing (c. 7 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Thoubāl, Wāngjing, Imphal.

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 two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 74 km SSE of Phek, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.7848° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.0488° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km SSE of Phek, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-03 13:48:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-03 15:01:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 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 312 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 0.927 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us2000b0gm Id of event.
Event Code 2000b0gm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b0gm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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