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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Dharchula in India


Earthquake location 30.0248S, 80.3873WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Dharchula in India on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us10003iqz. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003iqz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 80.3873 East, latitude 30.0248 North, depth = 35 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:57:17 / 2:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/09/15 / 2015-09-29 09:27:17 / September 29, 2015 @ 9:27 am.

Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Pithorāgarh (c. 47 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Almora (c. 32 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Dadeldhurā (c. 19 000 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Dārchulā (c. 18 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bāgeshwar (c. 8 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Dhārchula (c. 7 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Lohaghāt (c. 6 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Almora, Dadeldhurā, Burang.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 23 km NW of Dharchula, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 80.3873° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.0248° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NW of Dharchula, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-29 09:27:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-29 09:49:49 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 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 5.991 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us10003iqz Id of event.
Event Code 10003iqz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003iqz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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