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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 49 km ENE of Kishtwar, India


Earthquake location 33.5159S, 76.2369WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Kishtwar in India. Unique identifier: us1000atxi. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000atxi. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.28 km (24 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:40:25 / 6:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 76.2369 East, latitude 33.5159 North, depth = 39.28 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/10/17 / 2017-10-19 01:10:25 / October 19, 2017 @ 1:10 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rāmban, Bhadarwāh, Doda. Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Padam (c. 25 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Kishtwār (c. 20 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Doda (c. 17 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bhadarwāh (c. 13 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Rāmban (c. 7 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 49 km ENE of Kishtwar, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 76.2369° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.5159° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km ENE of Kishtwar, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-19 01:10:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-24 18:11:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 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 2.481 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us1000atxi Id of event.
Event Code 1000atxi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000atxi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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