Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 70 km NE of Lobuche, Nepal

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Lobuche in Nepal. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/25 / 2025-01-09 22:58:05 / January 9, 2025 @ 10:58 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000pj1w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pj1w. Exact location of earthquake, 87.3545° East, 28.3591° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:58:05 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Lobujya (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lobujya (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 70 km NE of Lobuche, Nepal.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	87.3545° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.3591° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70 km NE of Lobuche, Nepal	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-09 22:58:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-27 02:19:27	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.565	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	us6000pj1w	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pj1w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pj1w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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