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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Sardhana in India


Earthquake location 29.1783S, 77.5837WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Sardhana in India on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 12:15:02 / April 12, 2020 @ 12:15 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008utq. Id of event: us70008utq. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:45:02 / 5:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 77.5837° East, 29.1783° North, depth 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Delhi (c. 10 928 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Meerut (c. 1 223 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ghāziābād (c. 1 199 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Karol Bāgh (c. 505 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Muzaffarnagar (c. 349 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from New Delhi (c. 317 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nakūr, Gohāna, Khānpur.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km NW of Sardhana, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 77.5837° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.1783° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NW of Sardhana, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-12 12:15:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-12 12:36:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 36 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 224 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 5.785 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us70008utq Id of event.
Event Code 70008utq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008utq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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