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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 56 km SSE of Phek, India


Earthquake location 25.1732S, 94.6391WA 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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.6391° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.1732° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 km SSE of Phek, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-14 23:06:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-14 23:23:58 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 271 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.786 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us7000n729 Id of event.
Event Code 7000n729 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n729, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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