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


Earthquake location 12.1222S, 92.3914WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Bamboo Flat in India. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cjih. Unique identifier: us2000cjih. Exact location of event, depth 32.26 km, 92.3914° East, 12.1222° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.26 km (20 miles). The temblor was detected at 21:48:09 / 9:48 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/01/18 / 2018-01-14 15:48:09 / January 14, 2018 @ 3:48 pm.

Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Port Blair (c. 112 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Bamboo Flat (c. 7 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port Blair, Bamboo Flat.

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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km NW of Bamboo Flat, 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 92.3914° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.1222° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km NW 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 2018-01-14 15:48:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-14 16:17:35 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 340 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 6.93 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us2000cjih Id of event.
Event Code 2000cjih An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cjih, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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