A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Mayang Imphal in India. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 93.9009° East, latitude 24.5506° North, depth = 61.72 km. Unique identifier: us2000jcth. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jcth. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 61.72 km (38 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:50:45 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/02/19 / 2019-02-03 17:20:45 / February 3, 2019 @ 5:20 pm.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakhipur, Churāchāndpur, Imphal. Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Churāchāndpur (c. 47 800 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Mayāng Imphāl (c. 22 200 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Moirāng (c. 17 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Lakhipur (c. 12 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).
Each 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 four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km SSE of Mayang Imphal, India.
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