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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Lakhipur in India


Earthquake location 26.0179S, 90.2588WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Lakhipur in India. Event id: us100033t5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100033t5. The temblor was picked up at 00:51:14 / 12:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 45.36 km (28 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 90.2588 East, latitude 26.0179 North, depth = 45.36 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/08/15 / 2015-08-20 19:21:14 / August 20, 2015 @ 7:21 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Koch Bihār, Howli, Lalmanirhat (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Koch Bihār (c. 78 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lalmanirhat (c. 65 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Bongaigaon (c. 64 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Tura (c. 63 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Dhuburi (c. 62 500 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Goālpāra (c. 50 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 4 km WSW of Lakhipur, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 90.2588° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.0179° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km WSW of Lakhipur, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-20 19:21:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-20 22:13:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 235 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 1.508 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us100033t5 Id of event.
Event Code 100033t5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100033t5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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