A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Chamba in India. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008h7l. Unique identifier: us70008h7l. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 76.1949° East, 32.7085° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/03/20 / 2020-03-27 11:46:59 / March 27, 2020 @ 11:46 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 17:16:59 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jawāla Mukhi, Dinanagar, Hājīpur (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Pathankot (c. 174 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kathua (c. 48 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Talwāra (c. 24 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Dinanagar (c. 23 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Chamba (c. 21 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kishtwār (c. 20 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km NNE of Chamba, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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