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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Bamboo Flat in India


Earthquake location 12.8183S, 92.0967WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 140 km NNW of Bamboo Flat, India (87 miles) on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000at5x. Unique identifier: us2000at5x. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26.18 km (16 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:48:11 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 92.0967 East, latitude 12.8183 North, depth = 26.18 km. Global time and date of event 17/09/17 / 2017-09-17 14:48:11 / September 17, 2017 @ 2:48 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eight 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. 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: 140 km NNW of Bamboo Flat, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.0967° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8183° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 140km 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 14:48:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-04 19:15:27 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 385 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 1.317 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us2000at5x Id of event.
Event Code 2000at5x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000at5x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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