Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 37 km WNW of Nongstoin, India

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Nongstoin in India. The temblor was picked up at 00:34:19 / 12:34 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/08/18 / 2018-08-17 19:04:19 / August 17, 2018 @ 7:04 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 90.9167 East, latitude 25.6343 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000gdj7. Event ids that are associated: us1000gdj7.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soalkuchi, Howli, Cherrapunji. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Netrakona (c. 79 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tura (c. 63 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Goālpāra (c. 50 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barpeta (c. 48 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Nongstoin (c. 25 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Chāpar (c. 19 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 37 km WNW of Nongstoin, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	90.9167° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	25.6343° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km WNW of Nongstoin, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-17 19:04:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-19 22:24:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	330	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	234	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	0.85	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	183	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	us1000gdj7	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gdj7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gdj7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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