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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Churachandpur in India


Earthquake location 23.9753S, 93.4077WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Churachandpur in India. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hqbh. Id of event: us1000hqbh. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/11/18 / 2018-11-10 17:15:46 / November 10, 2018 @ 5:15 pm. 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 50.37 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 93.4077° East, latitude 23.9753° North, depth = 50.37 km. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:45:46 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Aizawl (c. 265 300 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Churāchāndpur (c. 47 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kolasib (c. 25 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Mayāng Imphāl (c. 22 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Imphal, Lāla, Yairipok. Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 47 km SSW of Churachandpur, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.4077° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9753° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km SSW of Churachandpur, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-10 17:15:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-10 17:34:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 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 417 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 0.854 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hqbh Id of event.
Event Code 1000hqbh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hqbh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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