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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Port Blair in India


Earthquake location 12.5643S, 93.7512WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 147 km NE of Port Blair, India (91 miles). Unique identifier: us1000d5cv. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000d5cv. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 106.64 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/03/18 / 2018-03-16 19:58:33 / March 16, 2018 @ 7:58 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 93.7512 East, latitude 12.5643 North, depth = 106.64 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:58:33 / 1:58 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 147 km NE of Port Blair, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.7512° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.5643° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147km NE of Port Blair, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-16 19:58:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-17 14:44:03 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 284 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 5.531 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us1000d5cv Id of event.
Event Code 1000d5cv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d5cv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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