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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Pipalkoti in India


Earthquake location 30.6375S, 79.1854WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Pipalkoti in India. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:49:50 / 8:49 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000bmru. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bmru. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 06/12/17 / 2017-12-06 15:19:50 / December 6, 2017 @ 3:19 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 79.1854 East, latitude 30.6375 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bāgeshwar, Rishīkesh, Lansdowne (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) from Rishīkesh (c. 66 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tehri (c. 27 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Pauri (c. 26 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Srīnagar (c. 20 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Uttarkāshi (c. 17 100 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Joshīmath (c. 13 900 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Bāgeshwar (c. 8 700 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km NW of Pipalkoti, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 79.1854° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.6375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km NW of Pipalkoti, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-06 15:19:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-06 16:01:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 80 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 431 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 5.848 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us1000bmru Id of event.
Event Code 1000bmru An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bmru, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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