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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Jumla in Nepal


Earthquake location 29.6818S, 81.6648WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Jumla in Nepal. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:19:36 / 7:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/06/18 / 2018-06-05 01:34:36 / June 5, 2018 @ 1:34 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000eiq5. Unique identifier: us1000eiq5. Exact location of event, longitude 81.6648 East, latitude 29.6818 North, depth = 10 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop), Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Dipayal (c. 23 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Dailekh (c. 20 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Jumla (c. 9 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Burang (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dailekh, Dipayal, Burang.

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. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km NW of Jumla, Nepal. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 81.6648° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.6818° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km NW of Jumla, Nepal Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-05 01:34:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-05 01:47:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 345 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 354 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 9.922 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us1000eiq5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000eiq5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eiq5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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