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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Dhekiajuli in India


Earthquake location 26.6692S, 92.5423WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Dhekiajuli in India. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000didl. Id of event: us6000didl. Exact location of earthquake, 92.5423° East, 26.6692° North, depth 53.03 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.03 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 12:24:50 / 12:24 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/02/21 / 2021-02-17 12:24:50 / February 17, 2021 @ 12:24 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was North Guwāhāti, Guwahati, Rangia. Close country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Guwahati (c. 899 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Tezpur (c. 58 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hojāi (c. 36 900 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Rangia (c. 26 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mangaldai (c. 24 900 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Dhekiajuli (c. 21 300 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Dhing (c. 20 800 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km ESE of Dhekiajuli, India.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.5423° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.6692° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km ESE of Dhekiajuli, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-17 12:24:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-17 12:54:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 341 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 1.259 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us6000didl Id of event.
Event Code 6000didl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000didl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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