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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 100 km NNE of Lobuche, Nepal

Posted by admin on January 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.8057S, 87.1343WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Lobuche in Nepal. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:10:54 / 1:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/25 / 2025-01-07 01:10:54 / January 7, 2025 @ 1:10 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000pks6. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pks6. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 87.1343° East, 28.8057° North, depth 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lobujya. Epicenter of the earthquake was 100 km (62 miles) from Lobujya (c. 8 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-five, in the last 10 days sixty-seven, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 100 km NNE of Lobuche, Nepal. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 87.1343° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.8057° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100 km NNE 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 2025-01-07 01:10:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-29 04:43:49 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 416 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.602 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 us6000pks6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pks6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pks6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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