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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Imphal in India


Earthquake location 24.8041S, 94.1072WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Imphal in India. The temblor was reported at 04:09:35 / 4:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.1072 East, latitude 24.8041 North, depth = 63.32 km. Id of earthquake: us70009edv. Event ids that are associated: us70009edv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/20 / 2020-05-11 22:39:35 / May 11, 2020 @ 10:39 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63.32 km (39 miles).

Close country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kohima, Churāchāndpur, Moirāng. Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kohima (c. 92 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Churāchāndpur (c. 47 800 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Mayāng Imphāl (c. 22 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Moirāng (c. 17 100 pop).

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. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km E of Imphal, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.1072° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8041° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km E of Imphal, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-11 22:39:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-11 23:00:45 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 340 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 0.598 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 us70009edv Id of event.
Event Code 70009edv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009edv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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