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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Kathmandu in Nepal

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Kathmandu in Nepal on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/02/16 / 2016-02-05 16:20:11 / February 5, 2016 @ 4:20 pm. The temblor was reported at 22:05:11 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 85.2486° East, 27.8396° North, depth 25.95 km. 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 25.95 km (16 miles). Event id: us20004y4t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004y4t.

Close country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (10 miles) from Kathmandu (c. 1 442 300 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Pātan (c. 183 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Bīrganj (c. 133 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Bharatpur (c. 107 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Hitura (c. 84 800 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Raxaul (c. 48 000 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Kirtipur (c. 44 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Raxaul, Bīrganj, Bharatpur (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 two hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km NNW of Kathmandu, Nepal. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	85.2486° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	27.8396° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km NNW of Kathmandu, Nepal	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-05 16:20:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-05 16:38:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	345	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	20	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.7	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	425	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	0.139	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	us20004y4t	Id of event.
Event Code	20004y4t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004y4t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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