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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Bamboo Flat in India


Earthquake location 13.032S, 93.3537WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 162 km NNE of Bamboo Flat, India (101 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/10/17 / 2017-10-10 14:42:26 / October 10, 2017 @ 2:42 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 52.75 km (33 miles). Exact location of event, depth 52.75 km, 93.3537° East, 13.032° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000atp9. Id of event: us1000atp9. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:42:26 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 162 km NNE of Bamboo Flat, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.3537° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.032° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 162km NNE 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 2017-10-10 14:42:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-29 19:59:41 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 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 1.492 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us1000atp9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000atp9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000atp9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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