Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Yairipok in India

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Yairipok in India. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80.12 km (50 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c3h8. Unique identifier: us2000c3h8. The temblor was picked up at 22:20:58 / 10:20 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/12/17 / 2017-12-05 15:50:58 / December 5, 2017 @ 3:50 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 94.6672° East, 24.5413° North, depth 80.12 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moirāng, Mayāng Imphāl, Imphal (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mayāng Imphāl (c. 22 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Moirāng (c. 17 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Yairipok (c. 8 800 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 62 km ESE of Yairipok, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	94.6672° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.5413° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	80.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	62km ESE of Yairipok, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-05 15:50:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-18 21:29:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	390	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	0.456	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us2000c3h8	Id of event.
Event Code	2000c3h8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000c3h8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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