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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Kodari in Nepal


Earthquake location 27.7513S, 86.1037WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Kodari in Nepal. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 86.1037 East, latitude 27.7513 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/07/15 / 2015-07-10 21:13:01 / July 10, 2015 @ 9:13 pm. Event id: us20002wnl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002wnl. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:58:01 / 2:58 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirtipur, Pātan, Kathmandu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Kathmandu (c. 1 442 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Pātan (c. 183 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kirtipur (c. 44 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Panaoti (c. 27 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Banepa (c. 17 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hari Bdr Tamang House (c. 10 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km SE of Kodari, Nepal. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 86.1037° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.7513° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SE of Kodari, Nepal Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-10 21:13:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-10 21:35:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 345 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.587 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us20002wnl Id of event.
Event Code 20002wnl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002wnl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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