Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Uri in India

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Uri in India. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/08/24 / 2024-08-21 16:52:25 / August 21, 2024 @ 4:52 pm. Exact location, longitude 74.11° East, latitude 34.2183° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us7000n8j7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n8j7. The temblor was detected at 16:52:25 / 4:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Baffa, Mānsehra, Abbottābād. The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Srinagar (c. 975 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Muzaffarābād (c. 725 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kotli (c. 640 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Abbottābād (c. 120 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Soyībug (c. 104 000 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Bāramūla (c. 77 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 16 km NNE of Uri, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	74.11° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.2183° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NNE of Uri, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-21 16:52:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-21 19:38:55	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	199	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	207	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	us7000n8j7	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n8j7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n8j7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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