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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Kakching in India

Posted by admin on May 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.3106S, 94.3988WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Kakching in India. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/05/16 / 2016-05-12 07:54:19 / May 12, 2016 @ 7:54 am. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:24:19 / 2:24 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 72 km (45 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 94.3988° East, 24.3106° North, depth 72 km. Event id: us10005gr5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005gr5.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mawlaik, Churāchāndpur, Imphal (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Churāchāndpur (c. 47 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Mayāng Imphāl (c. 22 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Moirāng (c. 17 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km ESE of Kakching, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.3988° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.3106° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km ESE of Kakching, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-12 07:54:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-12 08:16:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 355 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 6.913 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 79 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 us10005gr5 Id of event.
Event Code 10005gr5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gr5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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