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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Dwarka in India

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Earthquake location 22.2732S, 68.7577WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Dwarka in India on Saturday. Global time and date of event 09/05/20 / 2020-05-09 10:06:49 / May 9, 2020 @ 10:06 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us70009d7u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009d7u. Exact location, longitude 68.7577° East, latitude 22.2732° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:36:49 / 3:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salāya, Māndvi, Okha (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Māndvi (c. 47 900 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Dwārka (c. 35 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Salāya (c. 30 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Okha (c. 21 000 pop).

Each 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. 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 struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km W of Dwarka, India.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 68.7577° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.2732° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km W of Dwarka, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-09 10:06:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-10 21:42:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 247 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 12.013 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 255 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 us70009d7u Id of event.
Event Code 70009d7u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009d7u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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