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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Ghatal in India

Posted by admin on September 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 22.6926S, 87.7938WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ghatal in India on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/08/18 / 2018-08-28 13:03:27 / August 28, 2018 @ 1:03 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 87.7938° East, latitude 22.6926° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:33:27 / 6:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us1000gj5k. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000gj5k.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barjora, Rānāghāt, Bānkura (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Kolkata (c. 4 631 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Hāora (c. 1 027 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Bhātpāra (c. 483 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Shyamnagar (c. 442 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Nangi (c. 440 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Pānihāti (c. 378 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kāmārhāti (c. 333 000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 8 km ENE of Ghatal, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 87.7938° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.6926° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE of Ghatal, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-28 13:03:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-06 15:06:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 315 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 4.685 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us1000gj5k Id of event.
Event Code 1000gj5k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gj5k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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