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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Bamboo Flat in India


Earthquake location 12.7773S, 92.0628WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 138 km NNW of Bamboo Flat, India (86 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/09/17 / 2017-09-17 10:27:11 / September 17, 2017 @ 10:27 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000at5e. Unique identifier: us2000at5e. The temblor was detected at 16:27:11 / 4:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 92.0628 East, latitude 12.7773 North, depth = 33.35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 33.35 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 138 km NNW of Bamboo Flat, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.0628° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.7773° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138km NNW of Bamboo Flat, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-17 10:27:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-25 12:18:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 312 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 1.298 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us2000at5e Id of event.
Event Code 2000at5e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000at5e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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