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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Mid-Indian Ridge


Earthquake location -22.9049S, 69.5374WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Mid-Indian Ridge (0 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000mqiv. Event ids that are associated: us7000mqiv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/05/24 / 2024-05-29 22:13:26 / May 29, 2024 @ 10:13 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:13:26 / 10:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 69.5374 East, latitude -22.9049 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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: Mid-Indian Ridge.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.5374° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.9049° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Mid-Indian Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-29 22:13:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-19 02:32:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 326 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 39.702 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us7000mqiv Id of event.
Event Code 7000mqiv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mqiv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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