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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Yairipok in India


Earthquake location 24.5749S, 95.0379WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 98 km E of Yairipok, India (61 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us100047wa. Unique identifier: us100047wa. The temblor was detected at 17:47:29 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/12/15 / 2015-12-13 11:17:29 / December 13, 2015 @ 11:17 am. Exact location of event, longitude 95.0379 East, latitude 24.5749 North, depth = 146.62 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 146.62 km (91 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 98 km E of Yairipok, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.0379° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.5749° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 146.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km 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 2015-12-13 11:17:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-27 13:31:54 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 246 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 3.049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us100047wa Id of event.
Event Code 100047wa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100047wa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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