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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Leh in India


Earthquake location 34.393S, 78.2183WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Leh in India. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.19 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/01/19 / 2019-01-10 02:52:04 / January 10, 2019 @ 2:52 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:22:04 / 8:22 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j2bz. Id of event: us2000j2bz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 78.2183° East, 34.393° North, depth 34.19 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) from Leh (c. 37 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Leh (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 63 km ENE of Leh, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.2183° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.393° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km ENE 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 2019-01-10 02:52:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-10 03:13:59 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 326 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 4.176 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us2000j2bz Id of event.
Event Code 2000j2bz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j2bz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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