Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Shirgaon in India

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Shirgaon in India. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 72.3384 East, latitude 19.5309 North, depth = 15.15 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/19 / 2019-07-24 19:33:11 / July 24, 2019 @ 7:33 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.15 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us600055sf. Event ids that are associated: us600055sf. The temblor was picked up at 00:33:11 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Mumbai (c. 12 691 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Navi Mumbai (c. 2 600 000 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Kalyān (c. 1 262 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Thāne (c. 1 261 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Dombivli (c. 1 193 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bhiwandi (c. 707 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Navi Mumbai, Kalyān, Vāda.

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. 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: 42 km WSW of Shirgaon, India.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	72.3384° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5309° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42km WSW of Shirgaon, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-24 19:33:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-19 20:02:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	300	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	246	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	14.644	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	207	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	us600055sf	Id of event.
Event Code	600055sf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600055sf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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