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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Leh in India


Earthquake location 34.4228S, 78.657WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 102 km ENE of Leh, India (63 miles). The temblor was reported at 04:28:56 / 4:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.38 km (23 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/12/17 / 2017-12-10 22:58:56 / December 10, 2017 @ 10:58 pm. 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: us2000c2q3. Id of event: us2000c2q3. Exact location, longitude 78.657° East, latitude 34.4228° North, depth = 36.38 km.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 102 km ENE of Leh, India.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.657° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.4228° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km ENE of Leh, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-10 22:58:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-10 23:10:14 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 298 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 4.539 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us2000c2q3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000c2q3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c2q3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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