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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Ramechhap in Nepal

Posted by admin on July 2, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 27.2357S, 86.1117WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ramechhap in Nepal on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/07/17 / 2017-07-02 01:58:27 / July 2, 2017 @ 1:58 am. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:43:27 / 7:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 86.1117 East, latitude 27.2357 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us100095t8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100095t8.

Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Kathmandu (c. 1 442 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Pātan (c. 183 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Janakpur (c. 93 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Madhubani (c. 71 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Sītāmarhi (c. 57 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Kirtipur (c. 44 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Bairāgnia (c. 37 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rājbirāj, Bairāgnia, Gaur (min 5000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km SSE of Ramechhap, Nepal.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 86.1117° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.2357° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSE of Ramechhap, Nepal Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-02 01:58:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-02 02:23:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 345 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 369 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 5.412 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us100095t8 Id of event.
Event Code 100095t8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100095t8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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