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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Yairipok in India


Earthquake location 24.6516S, 94.8248WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Yairipok in India. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 12/08/15 / 2015-08-12 02:44:51 / August 12, 2015 @ 2:44 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.8248 East, latitude 24.6516 North, depth = 40.73 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.73 km (25 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:14:51 / 9:14 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100031bx. Unique identifier: us100031bx.

Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Mayāng Imphāl (c. 22 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Yairipok (c. 8 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Wāngjing (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mayāng Imphāl, Imphal, Kakching.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 76 km E of Yairipok, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.8248° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.6516° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km E of Yairipok, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-12 02:44:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-12 03:29:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 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 312 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 2.841 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us100031bx Id of event.
Event Code 100031bx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100031bx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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