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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Thang in India


Earthquake location 35.7371S, 78.3409WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 170 km ENE of Thang, India (106 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000ejuj. Event ids that are associated: us1000ejuj. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:15:49 / 2:15 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.01 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 78.3409 East, latitude 35.7371 North, depth = 7.01 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/06/18 / 2018-06-06 18:15:49 / June 6, 2018 @ 6:15 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 170 km ENE of Thang, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.3409° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7371° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 170km ENE of Thang, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-06 18:15:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-06 18:33:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 400 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 5.662 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 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 us1000ejuj Id of event.
Event Code 1000ejuj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ejuj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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