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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Nawalgarh in India


Earthquake location 27.8279S, 75.3246WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Nawalgarh in India. Id of earthquake: us7000mr80. Event ids that are associated: us7000mr80. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 8.538 km (5 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:17:18 / 6:17 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/06/24 / 2024-06-08 18:17:18 / June 8, 2024 @ 6:17 pm. Exact location, longitude 75.3246° East, latitude 27.8279° North, depth = 8.538 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kuchāman, Dīdwāna, Kotputli. Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 30 km (19 miles) from Sīkar (c. 199 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Sūjāngarh (c. 183 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Jhunjhunūn (c. 113 200 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Chūru (c. 103 500 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Fatehpur (c. 83 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Ratangarh (c. 66 600 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km ESE of Nawalgarh, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 75.3246° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.8279° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.538 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km ESE of Nawalgarh, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-08 18:17:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-08 19:18:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 247 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.067 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us7000mr80 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mr80 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mr80, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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