Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Samtse in Bhutan

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Samtse in Bhutan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/04/20 / 2020-04-26 05:29:30 / April 26, 2020 @ 5:29 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us60009cyy. Event ids that are associated: us60009cyy. The temblor was detected at 11:29:30 / 11:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 89.2198° East, latitude 26.9797° North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tufānganj, Shiliguri, Haldībāri (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Shiliguri (c. 515 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Jaigaon (c. 158 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Jalpāiguri (c. 107 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Thimphu (c. 98 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Koch Bihār (c. 78 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Goyerkāta (c. 66 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Bhutan (c. 700 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km NE of Samtse, Bhutan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	89.2198° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	26.9797° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km NE of Samtse, Bhutan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-26 05:29:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-26 23:34:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.5	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	211	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	2.753	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	109	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	us60009cyy	Id of event.
Event Code	60009cyy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60009cyy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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