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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 8 km ESE of Bhachau, India


Earthquake location 23.2663S, 70.4272WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Bhachau in India. Exact location of event, longitude 70.4272 East, latitude 23.2663 North, depth = 22.85 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.85 km (14 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:03:09 / 4:03 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/03/18 / 2018-03-28 22:33:09 / March 28, 2018 @ 10:33 pm. Unique identifier: us1000dagp. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dagp.

The epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Gāndhīdhām (c. 166 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bhuj (c. 133 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Morbi (c. 118 000 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Anjār (c. 66 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Wānkāner (c. 47 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Dhrol (c. 26 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wānkāner, Mundra, Halvad (min 5000 pop). Close 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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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: 8 km ESE of Bhachau, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.4272° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.2663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ESE of Bhachau, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-28 22:33:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-28 23:00:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 273 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 10.643 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us1000dagp Id of event.
Event Code 1000dagp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dagp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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