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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Bamboo Flat in India


Earthquake location 13.4542S, 91.7834WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 218 km NNW of Bamboo Flat, India (135 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, 91.7834° East, 13.4542° North, depth 26.82 km. Unique identifier: us2000jgu3. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jgu3. The temblor was reported at 02:21:24 / 2:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/02/19 / 2019-02-12 20:21:24 / February 12, 2019 @ 8:21 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.82 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 218 km NNW of Bamboo Flat, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 91.7834° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.4542° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 218km NNW of Bamboo Flat, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-12 20:21:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-12 22:24:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 312 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 2.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us2000jgu3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jgu3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jgu3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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