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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 10 km SSW of Saiha, India


Earthquake location 22.4015S, 92.9181WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Saiha in India on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 08:28:32 / 8:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 92.9181° East, 22.4015° North, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/02/19 / 2019-02-17 02:58:32 / February 17, 2019 @ 2:58 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jj1j. Unique identifier: us2000jj1j. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Serchhīp, Patiya, Sātkania (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Lunglei (c. 52 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Sātkania (c. 52 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Patiya (c. 51 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bāndarban (c. 32 500 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Saiha (c. 22 700 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Serchhīp (c. 20 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 10 km SSW of Saiha, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.9181° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.4015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSW of Saiha, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-17 02:58:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-17 03:23:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 355 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 0.674 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us2000jj1j Id of event.
Event Code 2000jj1j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jj1j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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