Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Beldānga in India

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Beldānga in India. Exact location of event, longitude 88.4289 East, latitude 23.8783 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 26/08/20 / 2020-08-26 02:24:03 / August 26, 2020 @ 2:24 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 02:24:03 / 2:24 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000bd2a. Event ids that are associated: us7000bd2a.

Nearby country/countries, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Memāri, Pābna, Guskhara. Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Rājshāhi (c. 700 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Pābna (c. 186 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Baharampur (c. 180 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Shāntipur (c. 150 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Krishnanagar (c. 145 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Nawābganj (c. 142 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km ESE of Beldānga, India.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	88.4289° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.8783° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km ESE of Beldānga, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-26 02:24:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-26 03:07:59	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	222	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	3.54	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	209	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	us7000bd2a	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bd2a	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bd2a,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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