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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 83 km SE of Phek, India


Earthquake location 25.0893S, 95.0376WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Phek in India on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us70005blu. Event ids that are associated: us70005blu. Global time and date of event 03/09/19 / 2019-09-03 19:18:39 / September 3, 2019 @ 7:18 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 87.47 km (54 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 01:48:39 / 1:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 95.0376 East, latitude 25.0893 North, depth = 87.47 km.

Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Phek (c. 15 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Phek (min 5000 pop).

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. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 83 km SE of Phek, India.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.0376° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.0893° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km SE of Phek, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-03 19:18:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-04 16:12:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 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 1.087 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us70005blu Id of event.
Event Code 70005blu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005blu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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