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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 10 km SSW of Mangan, India


Earthquake location 27.4341S, 88.4752WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Mangan in India. The temblor was detected at 20:37:37 / 8:37 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000etxu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000etxu. 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 50.5 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 17/06/18 / 2018-06-17 15:07:37 / June 17, 2018 @ 3:07 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 88.4752° East, latitude 27.4341° North, depth = 50.5 km.

Close country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Paro, Naksalbāri, Samtse (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Shiliguri (c. 515 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Dārjiling (c. 123 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Naksalbāri (c. 57 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kārsiyāng (c. 46 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Kālimpang (c. 43 000 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Gangtok (c. 30 700 pop).

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 nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 10 km SSW of Mangan, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 88.4752° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.4341° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSW of Mangan, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-17 15:07:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-17 18:07:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 300 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 1.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us1000etxu Id of event.
Event Code 1000etxu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000etxu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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