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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near North Vanlaiphai in India


Earthquake location 22.9904S, 93.2024WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from North Vanlaiphai in India on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/08/20 / 2020-08-14 01:08:08 / August 14, 2020 @ 1:08 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 93.2024° East, 22.9904° North. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:08:08 / 1:08 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000bei5. Event ids that are associated: us6000bei5.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saiha, Thenzawl, Hakha (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Lunglei (c. 52 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Saiha (c. 22 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Serchhīp (c. 20 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Thenzawl (c. 6 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Falam (c. 5 400 pop).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km SE of North Vanlaiphai, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.2024° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.9904° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km SE 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 2020-08-14 01:08:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-14 01:29:01 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 0.504 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us6000bei5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000bei5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bei5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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