Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 27 km N of Silchar, India


Earthquake location 25.0743S, 92.7607WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Silchar in India. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/11/24 / 2024-11-23 17:35:05 / November 23, 2024 @ 5:35 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 17:35:05 / 5:35 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000p7ad. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000p7ad. The epicenter was at a depth of 48.73 km (30 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 92.7607 East, latitude 25.0743 North, depth = 48.73 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Sylhet (c. 237 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Silchar (c. 152 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Karīmganj (c. 55 300 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Hāflong (c. 40 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Hailākāndi (c. 31 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Lumding Railway Colony (c. 25 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sylhet, Lumding Railway Colony, Lāla.

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

How would you describe the shaking?

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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 27 km N of Silchar, India.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.7607° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.0743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km N of Silchar, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-23 17:35:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-23 20:16:39 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us6000p7ad Id of event.
Event Code 6000p7ad An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p7ad, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply