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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Kathmandu in Nepal


Earthquake location 27.749S, 85.2992WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Kathmandu in Nepal. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002mxq. Unique identifier: us10002mxq. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/07/15 / 2015-07-02 01:56:11 / July 2, 2015 @ 1:56 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 85.2992° East, 27.749° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:41:11 / 7:41 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 6 km (4 miles) from Kathmandu (c. 1 442 300 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Pātan (c. 183 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bīrganj (c. 133 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Bharatpur (c. 107 200 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Hitura (c. 84 800 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Kirtipur (c. 44 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bīrganj, Bharatpur, Hitura.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km NNW of Kathmandu, Nepal. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 85.2992° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.749° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NNW of Kathmandu, Nepal Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-02 01:56:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-02 02:16:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 345 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 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 272 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 0.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us10002mxq Id of event.
Event Code 10002mxq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mxq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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