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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Bamboo Flat in India


Earthquake location 12.3644S, 93.1316WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Bamboo Flat in India. The temblor was detected at 08:09:53 / 8:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 69.37 km (43 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/02/18 / 2018-02-13 02:39:53 / February 13, 2018 @ 2:39 am. Unique identifier: us2000d1a1. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d1a1. Exact location of earthquake, 93.1316° East, 12.3644° North, depth 69.37 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port Blair, Bamboo Flat. Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Port Blair (c. 112 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Bamboo Flat (c. 7 400 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 86 km NNE of Bamboo Flat, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.1316° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.3644° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km 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 2018-02-13 02:39:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-13 03:11:44 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 4.11 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 482 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 6.168 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 28 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 us2000d1a1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d1a1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d1a1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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