A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Bandipura in India on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude 74.612 East, latitude 34.7875 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 00:19:09 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/05/24 / 2024-05-20 00:19:09 / May 20, 2024 @ 12:19 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000mzr2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mzr2. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kupwāra, Srinagar, Soyībug. The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Srinagar (c. 975 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Soyībug (c. 104 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bāramūla (c. 77 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Sopur (c. 63 000 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Bandipura (c. 32 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Gāndarbal (c. 16 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 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 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 was reported nearby.
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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. 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: 41 km N of Bandipura, India.
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