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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Along in India


Earthquake location 30.2068S, 94.7699WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 225 km N of Along, India (140 miles) on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 21/07/20 / 2020-07-21 02:15:22 / July 21, 2020 @ 2:15 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.81 km (21 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:15:22 / 2:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 94.7699 East, latitude 30.2068 North, depth = 33.81 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b55p. Id of event: us6000b55p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 225 km N of Along, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.7699° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.2068° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 225 km N of Along, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-21 02:15:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-28 23:16:47 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 298 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 9.428 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us6000b55p Id of event.
Event Code 6000b55p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b55p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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