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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Along in India


Earthquake location 30.3312S, 94.7936WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 239 km N of Along, India (149 miles) on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 36.21 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000b7kk. Event ids that are associated: us6000b7kk. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:58:51 / 6:58 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/07/20 / 2020-07-31 18:58:51 / July 31, 2020 @ 6:58 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.7936 East, latitude 30.3312 North, depth = 36.21 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 239 km N of Along, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.7936° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.3312° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 239 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 2020-07-31 18:58:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-31 20:39:03 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 284 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 3.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us6000b7kk Id of event.
Event Code 6000b7kk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b7kk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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