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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake strikes near Banepa in Nepal

Posted by admin on May 16, 2015 1 Comment

Earthquake location 27.638S, 85.705WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (mg/mb) was reported Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Banepa in Nepal. The temblor was reported at 09:24:26 / 9:24 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time of event 16/05/15 / 2015-05-16 03:39:26 / May 16, 2015 @ 3:39 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 85.705 East, latitude 27.638 North, depth 10 km, unique identifier, us100029pb. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us100029pb,.

Close countries, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Kathmandu (c. 1 442 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Pātan (c. 183 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hitura (c. 84 800 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Kirtipur (c. 44 600 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Panaoti (c. 27 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Malangwa (c. 20 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Banepa (c. 17 200 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Malangwa, Hitura, Kirtipur.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 85.705° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.638° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km E of Banepa, Nepal Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-16 03:39:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-16 04:06:50 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 3.1 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 355 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 5.879 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 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 us100029pb Id of event.
Event Code 100029pb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100029pb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Samrat

    We wish if there was an earthquake prediction instrument present, which could inform people atleast a few minutes beforehand, but unfortunately no one knows when a fault line will slide & release energy….. really unpredictable.

    May 16, 2015
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