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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Sirajganj in Bangladesh


Earthquake location 24.5706S, 89.5825WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Sirajganj in Bangladesh. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/01/18 / 2018-01-30 14:15:16 / January 30, 2018 @ 2:15 pm. The temblor was detected at 20:15:16 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 16.25 km (10 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 89.5825 East, latitude 24.5706 North, depth = 16.25 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000czng. Id of event: us2000czng.

Country/countries that might be effected, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop). The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Nāgarpur (c. 238 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Mymensingh (c. 225 100 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Bogra (c. 210 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Pār Naogaon (c. 192 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Pābna (c. 186 800 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Tāngāil (c. 180 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kushtia, Mymensingh, Bherāmāra.

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 two 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 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: 19 km NW of Sirajganj, Bangladesh.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 89.5825° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.5706° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NW of Sirajganj, Bangladesh Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-30 14:15:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-13 19:35:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 299 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 2.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us2000czng Id of event.
Event Code 2000czng An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000czng, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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