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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Rudraprayag in India


Earthquake location 30.4233S, 79.1152WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Rudraprayag in India on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20002ygc. Unique identifier: us20002ygc. Global time and date of event 18/07/15 / 2015-07-18 23:48:08 / July 18, 2015 @ 11:48 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 79.1152° East, 30.4233° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 05:18:08 / 5:18 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rānīkhet, Bāgeshwar, Birbhaddar (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Rishīkesh (c. 66 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Tehri (c. 27 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Pauri (c. 26 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Srīnagar (c. 20 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Rānīkhet (c. 19 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Uttarkāshi (c. 17 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km NE of Rudraprayag, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 79.1152° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.4233° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km NE of Rudraprayag, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-18 23:48:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-19 01:35:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 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 298 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 9.407 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us20002ygc Id of event.
Event Code 20002ygc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002ygc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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