A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Phek in India. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.6391 East, latitude 25.1732 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:06:45 / 11:06 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000n729. Unique identifier: us7000n729. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/08/24 / 2024-08-14 23:06:45 / August 14, 2024 @ 11:06 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kohima (c. 92 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Zunheboto (c. 29 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Phek (c. 15 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Yairipok (c. 8 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zunheboto, Thoubāl, Wāngjing (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 56 km SSE of Phek, India.
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