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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Sarahan in India

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Sarahan in India on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 77.7042° East, latitude 31.5284° North, depth = 31.67 km. Unique identifier: us20006ufk. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006ufk. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/08/16 / 2016-08-27 01:14:33 / August 27, 2016 @ 1:14 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.67 km (20 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:44:33 / 6:44 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manāli, Ghumārwīn, Barkot (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Shimla (c. 173 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Solan (c. 40 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Mandi (c. 28 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sundarnagar (c. 25 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kulu (c. 19 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bilāspur (c. 14 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Manāli (c. 8 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).

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 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 9 km W of Sarahan, India.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	77.7042° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.5284° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.67 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km W of Sarahan, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-27 01:14:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-27 01:48:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	330	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	326	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	4.3	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	us20006ufk	Id of event.
Event Code	20006ufk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006ufk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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