Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 25 km E of North Vanlaiphai, India

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from North Vanlaiphai in India. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:33:53 / 4:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 93.3092 East, latitude 23.1204 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000aqg3. Event ids that are associated: us7000aqg3. Global time and date of event 17/07/20 / 2020-07-17 16:33:53 / July 17, 2020 @ 4:33 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sairang, Aizawl, Saiha. Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Aizawl (c. 265 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Lunglei (c. 52 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Saiha (c. 22 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Serchhīp (c. 20 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Thenzawl (c. 6 000 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Sairang (c. 5 800 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	93.3092° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.1204° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km E of North Vanlaiphai, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-17 16:33:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-17 16:50:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	432	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	0.546	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000aqg3	Id of event.
Event Code	7000aqg3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000aqg3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

93.3092° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

23.1204° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

25 km E of North Vanlaiphai, India

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2020-07-17 16:33:53

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-07-17 16:50:10

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

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

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

432

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.546

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.74 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mww

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us7000aqg3

Id of event.

Event Code

7000aqg3

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us7000aqg3,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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