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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake strikes near Nagarkot in Nepal


Earthquake location 27.9938S, 85.437WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (mg/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Nagarkot in Nepal. The temblor was reported at 15:15:29 / 3:15 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time of event 25/04/15 / 2015-04-25 09:30:29 / April 25, 2015 @ 9:30 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 85.437 East, latitude 27.9938 North, depth 10 km, unique identifier, us2000294i.

Close countries, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop). The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Kathmandu (c. 1 442 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Pātan (c. 183 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hitura (c. 84 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Kirtipur (c. 44 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Panaoti (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hitura, Panaoti, Banepa.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 85.437° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.9938° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km NNW of Nagarkot, Nepal Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-04-25 09:30:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-25 10:02:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 345 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 385 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.225 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us2000294i Id of event.
Event Code 2000294i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000294i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

1 Comment

  1. abha

    We a group of 10 people had been for hiking from Sankhu to Nagarkot on 25th April 2015. we felt the tremor and we ran outside the restaurant and land cracked a few feet in front of us. We ran out of the restaurant compound and saw small buildings collapsing, a foreigner lady approached her head injured a white cloth tied on her head, face drenched with dry blood. In a faint voice she said she was on the top floor of the restaurant when she got injured. We helped her to put in a taxi and locals took her to emergency care. People running around looking for a bigger plain area. when we had arrived nagarkot after 4 hours of hiking our legs were so tired we just didn’t want to walk more to find a good restaurant and we’re very hungry but out of terror we forgot all the tiredness and hunger and were running around for safer place. we saw people being given first aid and a few with head injury collapsed in the open field while receiving first aid.

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