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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Khonsa in India

Posted by admin on December 29, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 26.6888S, 96.0966WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Khonsa in India on Friday. Event id: us1000bxqd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bxqd. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 79.69 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/12/17 / 2017-12-29 16:19:14 / December 29, 2017 @ 4:19 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.0966 East, latitude 26.6888 North, depth = 79.69 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:49:14 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nāmrup, Digboi, Margherita. Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Margherita (c. 24 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Digboi (c. 20 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Nāmrup (c. 18 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Khonsa (c. 10 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 63 km SE of Khonsa, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.0966° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.6888° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km SE of Khonsa, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-29 16:19:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-29 16:35:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 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 341 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 2.938 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us1000bxqd Id of event.
Event Code 1000bxqd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bxqd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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