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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag has occurred near Port Blair in India


Earthquake location 11.984S, 94.8885WA earthquake with magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) was reported 236 km E of Port Blair, India (147 miles) on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.8885 East, latitude 11.984 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000aqaw. Event ids that are associated: us7000aqaw. The temblor was detected at 14:03:42 / 2:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/20 / 2020-07-17 14:03:42 / July 17, 2020 @ 2:03 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five 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: 236 km E of Port Blair, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.8885° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.984° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 236 km E of Port Blair, 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 14:03:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-17 14:18:23 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 572 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 2.124 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us7000aqaw Id of event.
Event Code 7000aqaw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aqaw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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