Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Pokhara in Nepal

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Pokhara in Nepal on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/12/24 / 2024-12-19 01:52:45 / December 19, 2024 @ 1:52 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000nzxt. Event ids that are associated: us7000nzxt. Exact location of earthquake, 84.1974° East, 28.5305° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:52:45 / 1:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Pokhara (c. 200 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Bāglung (c. 23 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Wāling (c. 21 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wāling, Bāglung, Pokhara (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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: 36 km NE of Pokhara, Nepal. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	84.1974° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.5305° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 km NE of Pokhara, Nepal	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-19 01:52:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-19 02:39:40	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.201	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	166	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	us7000nzxt	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nzxt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nzxt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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