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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Leh in India


Earthquake location 34.2333S, 78.064WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Leh in India. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/06/18 / 2018-06-07 06:51:17 / June 7, 2018 @ 6:51 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000ek9l. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ek9l. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:21:17 / 12:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 78.064 East, latitude 34.2333 North, depth = 10 km.

Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Leh (c. 37 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Leh (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).

Every 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km E of Leh, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.064° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km E 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 2018-06-07 06:51:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-07 07:16:36 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 4.028 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us1000ek9l Id of event.
Event Code 1000ek9l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ek9l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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