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Strong earthquake 6.1 mag, 38 km NNW of Along, India


Earthquake location 28.4634S, 94.5641WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Along in India. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/04/19 / 2019-04-23 20:15:50 / April 23, 2019 @ 8:15 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003axc. Id of event: us70003axc. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.38 km (6 miles). The 6.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:45:50 / 1:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 94.5641° East, 28.4634° North, depth 9.38 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ziro, Dibrugarh, Dhemāji (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 114 km (71 miles) from Dibrugarh (c. 122 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Pāsighāt (c. 25 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Along (c. 18 400 pop), 120 km (75 miles) from Ziro (c. 13 900 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Dhemāji (c. 13 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 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 have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km NNW of Along, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.5641° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.4634° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NNW of Along, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-23 20:15:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-23 20:35:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 7.171 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 575 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 3.762 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 us70003axc Id of event.
Event Code 70003axc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003axc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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