Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Barkot in India

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Barkot in India on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/06/18 / 2018-06-14 00:42:07 / June 14, 2018 @ 12:42 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000ewlh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ewlh. Exact location, longitude 78.3275° East, latitude 30.8843° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 06:12:07 / 6:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pauri, Rāmpur, Birbhaddar. Close country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Dehradun (c. 522 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Rishīkesh (c. 66 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Rāipur (c. 27 700 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Tehri (c. 27 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Pauri (c. 26 500 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Mussoorie (c. 25 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 14 km ENE of Barkot, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	78.3275° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.8843° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km ENE of Barkot, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-06-14 00:42:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-04 21:36:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	330	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	298	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	5.095	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165	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	us1000ewlh	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ewlh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ewlh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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