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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Jaggayyapeta in India


Earthquake location 16.6921S, 79.9484WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Jaggayyapeta in India on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 21:07:34 / January 25, 2020 @ 9:07 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us60007fyl. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007fyl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 79.9484° East, 16.6921° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 02:37:34 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Vijayawāda (c. 874 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Guntūr (c. 530 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Khammam (c. 170 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Nalgonda (c. 121 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Suriāpet (c. 111 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Miriālgūda (c. 101 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponnur, Kankipādu, Gannavaram (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 28 km SW of Jaggayyapeta, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 79.9484° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.6921° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SW of Jaggayyapeta, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-25 21:07:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-25 22:16:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 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 298 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 9.39 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us60007fyl Id of event.
Event Code 60007fyl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007fyl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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