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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Kharkhauda in India


Earthquake location 28.823S, 76.8815WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Kharkhauda in India on Monday. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:28:05 / 6:28 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000hbnn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hbnn. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 76.8815° East, 28.823° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/09/18 / 2018-09-10 00:58:05 / September 10, 2018 @ 12:58 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Delhi (c. 10 928 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Meerut (c. 1 223 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Farīdābād (c. 1 220 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Ghāziābād (c. 1 199 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Karol Bāgh (c. 505 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from New Delhi (c. 317 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Banat, Jhinjhāna, Nārnaund.

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 has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km SSE of Kharkhauda, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 76.8815° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.823° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SSE of Kharkhauda, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-10 00:58:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-10 01:38:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 201 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 8.778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us2000hbnn Id of event.
Event Code 2000hbnn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hbnn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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