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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 174 km S of Port Blair, India


Earthquake location 10.1076S, 92.9732WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 174 km S of Port Blair, India (108 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:39:06 / 8:39 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 78.618 km (49 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000p02u. Unique identifier: us6000p02u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/09/24 / 2024-09-29 08:39:06 / September 29, 2024 @ 8:39 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 78.618 km, 92.9732° East, 10.1076° North.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven 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. 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: 174 km S of Port Blair, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.9732° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.1076° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.618 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 174 km S 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 2024-09-29 08:39:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-23 08:07:43 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 284 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 1.555 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us6000p02u Id of event.
Event Code 6000p02u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p02u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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