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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Jubbal in India


Earthquake location 31.1179S, 77.7253WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Jubbal in India. Unique identifier: us10006j3q. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006j3q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:08:07 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/08/16 / 2016-08-27 03:38:07 / August 27, 2016 @ 3:38 am. Exact location of event, longitude 77.7253 East, latitude 31.1179 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dehradun, Nārāyangarh, Baddi (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Dehradun (c. 522 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Shimla (c. 173 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Solan (c. 40 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kālka (c. 32 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pinjaur (c. 32 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Nāhan (c. 27 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km E of Jubbal, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 77.7253° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.1179° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km E of Jubbal, 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 03:38:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-05 02:42:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 284 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 4.537 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us10006j3q Id of event.
Event Code 10006j3q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006j3q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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