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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 39 km SE of Port Blair, India


Earthquake location 11.3838S, 92.9714WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Port Blair in India. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mcjj. Id of event: us7000mcjj. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/04/24 / 2024-04-16 23:01:24 / April 16, 2024 @ 11:01 pm. The temblor was reported at 23:01:24 / 11:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 92.9714° East, latitude 11.3838° North, depth = 58.174 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.174 km (36 miles). 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 Bamboo Flat, Port Blair. The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Port Blair (c. 112 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Bamboo Flat (c. 7 400 pop). Nearby 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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 39 km SE of Port Blair, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.9714° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.3838° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.174 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 km SE of Port Blair, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-16 23:01:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-10 22:39:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 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 421 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 168 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.701 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us7000mcjj Id of event.
Event Code 7000mcjj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mcjj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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