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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Panbang in Bhutan


Earthquake location 26.8128S, 90.9117WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Panbang in Bhutan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/08/18 / 2018-08-11 10:04:15 / August 11, 2018 @ 10:04 am. Id of earthquake: us1000g7hg. Event ids that are associated: us1000g7hg. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 16:04:15 / 4:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 90.9117 East, latitude 26.8128 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trongsa, Trashigang, Jakar (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Bongaigaon (c. 64 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Goālpāra (c. 50 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Barpeta (c. 48 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Barpeta Road (c. 35 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kokrajhar (c. 32 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Rangia (c. 26 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SW of Panbang, Bhutan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 90.9117° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.8128° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SW of Panbang, Bhutan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-11 10:04:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-12 23:42:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 222 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 1.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us1000g7hg Id of event.
Event Code 1000g7hg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g7hg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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