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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Kakching in India


Earthquake location 24.1786S, 94.3358WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Kakching in India. Unique identifier: us70006d1q. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006d1q. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 03:53:46 / November 26, 2019 @ 3:53 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 69.97 km (43 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 94.3358 East, latitude 24.1786 North, depth = 69.97 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:23:46 / 10:23 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Churāchāndpur (c. 47 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Mayāng Imphāl (c. 22 200 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Moirāng (c. 17 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Imphal, Churāchāndpur, Moirāng.

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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 49 km SE of Kakching, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.3358° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1786° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km SE of Kakching, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-26 03:53:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-26 04:14:14 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 326 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 0.06 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us70006d1q Id of event.
Event Code 70006d1q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006d1q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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