Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Hājo in India


Earthquake location 26.2024S, 91.3108WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Hājo in India. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/10/20 / 2020-10-03 15:36:17 / October 3, 2020 @ 3:36 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 44.3 km (28 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 91.3108° East, 26.2024° North, depth 44.3 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:36:17 / 3:36 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c584. Unique identifier: us6000c584.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shillong, Khārupatia, Chāpar. The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Guwahati (c. 899 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Shillong (c. 132 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bongaigaon (c. 64 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Goālpāra (c. 50 800 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Barpeta (c. 48 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Barpeta Road (c. 35 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).

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

Did you feel it?

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. 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: 21 km WSW of Hājo, India.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 91.3108° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.2024° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km WSW of Hājo, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-03 15:36:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-03 17:26:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 273 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 0.801 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us6000c584 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c584 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c584, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply