A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 159 km SW of Port Blair, India (99 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/08/18 / 2018-08-24 12:18:07 / August 24, 2018 @ 12:18 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 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 location of event, longitude 91.6059 East, latitude 10.7666 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000ggpn. Event ids that are associated: us1000ggpn. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:18:07 / 6:18 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 159 km SW of Port Blair, India.
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