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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Leh in India


Earthquake location 34.2399S, 78.1299WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Leh in India on Monday. The temblor was detected at 20:13:35 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/10/18 / 2018-10-29 14:43:35 / October 29, 2018 @ 2:43 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 78.1299° East, 34.2399° North, depth 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hij3. Id of event: us1000hij3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Leh (c. 37 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Leh (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 have been detected in the same area.

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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: 51 km E of Leh, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.1299° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2399° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km 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 2018-10-29 14:43:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-29 15:23:53 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 400 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 4.083 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hij3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hij3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hij3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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