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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Port Blair in India


Earthquake location 11.348S, 93.901WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 130 km ESE of Port Blair, India (81 miles) on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nmfx. Id of event: us7000nmfx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:05:28 / 7:05 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/10/24 / 2024-10-01 19:05:28 / October 1, 2024 @ 7:05 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 93.901 East, latitude 11.348 North, depth = 177.767 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 177.767 km (110 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 130 km ESE of Port Blair, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.901° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.348° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 177.767 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130 km ESE of Port Blair, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-01 19:05:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-23 13:51:45 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 259 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.874 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us7000nmfx Id of event.
Event Code 7000nmfx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nmfx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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