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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near North Vanlaiphai in India


Earthquake location 23.0526S, 93.2599WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from North Vanlaiphai in India on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/08/20 / 2020-08-27 13:17:20 / August 27, 2020 @ 1:17 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bdpj. Id of event: us7000bdpj. Exact location of event, longitude 93.2599 East, latitude 23.0526 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 13:17:20 / 1:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Aizawl (c. 265 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Lunglei (c. 52 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Saiha (c. 22 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Serchhīp (c. 20 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Thenzawl (c. 6 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Falam (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aizawl, Saiha, Thenzawl (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 ESE of North Vanlaiphai, India.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.2599° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.0526° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km ESE 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 2020-08-27 13:17:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-27 14:49:53 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 312 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 0.514 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us7000bdpj Id of event.
Event Code 7000bdpj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bdpj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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