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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Leh in India


Earthquake location 34.0313S, 77.9427WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Leh in India. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 77.9427° East, 34.0313° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 21:32:48 / 9:32 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/10/18 / 2018-10-29 16:02:48 / October 29, 2018 @ 4:02 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000i61q. Unique identifier: us2000i61q.

Close country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Leh (c. 37 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Leh (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 36 km ESE of Leh, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 77.9427° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0313° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km ESE of Leh, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-29 16:02:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-06 17:10:25 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 259 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 3.908 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us2000i61q Id of event.
Event Code 2000i61q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i61q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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