Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Bandipura in India

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Bandipura in India on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.4 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000c1ja. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c1ja. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 06:32:05 / 6:32 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/09/20 / 2020-09-26 06:32:05 / September 26, 2020 @ 6:32 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 74.2755 East, latitude 34.6597 North, depth = 51.4 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Muzaffarābād, Srinagar, Soyībug. Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Srinagar (c. 975 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Muzaffarābād (c. 725 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Soyībug (c. 104 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Bāramūla (c. 77 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Sopur (c. 63 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Bandipura (c. 32 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Gāndarbal (c. 16 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 43 km NW of Bandipura, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	74.2755° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.6597° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km NW of Bandipura, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-26 06:32:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-26 06:48:01	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	326	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	1.307	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us6000c1ja	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c1ja	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c1ja,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

74.2755° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

34.6597° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

51.4 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

43 km NW of Bandipura, India

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2020-09-26 06:32:05

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-09-26 06:48:01

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

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

326

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.307

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.79 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us6000c1ja

Id of event.

Event Code

6000c1ja

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000c1ja,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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