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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Mongar in Bhutan


Earthquake location 27.4049S, 91.3314WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Mongar in Bhutan. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:35:46 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70005rkb. Event ids that are associated: us70005rkb. Exact location, longitude 91.3314° East, latitude 27.4049° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/10/19 / 2019-10-07 12:35:46 / October 7, 2019 @ 12:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Bhutan (c. 700 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Pemagatshel (c. 13 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Samdrup Jongkhar (c. 7 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Jakar (c. 4 800 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Trashi Yangtse (c. 3 000 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Mongar (c. 3 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Trongsa (c. 2 800 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Trashigang (c. 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trongsa, Shemgang, Samdrup Jongkhar (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km NNE of Mongar, Bhutan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 91.3314° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.4049° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NNE of Mongar, Bhutan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-07 12:35:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-07 13:30:00 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 340 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 8.412 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us70005rkb Id of event.
Event Code 70005rkb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005rkb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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