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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Tezu in India


Earthquake location 27.4151S, 96.382WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Tezu in India on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iwn3. Id of event: us2000iwn3. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/12/18 / 2018-12-23 11:21:00 / December 23, 2018 @ 11:21 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 96.382° East, 27.4151° North. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:51:00 / 4:51 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khonsa, Dum Duma, Digboi. Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Margherita (c. 24 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Dum Duma (c. 21 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Digboi (c. 20 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Tezu (c. 14 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Khonsa (c. 10 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. 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: 59 km SSE of Tezu, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.382° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.4151° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km SSE of Tezu, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-23 11:21:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-13 10:01:32 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 284 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 3.685 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us2000iwn3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000iwn3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iwn3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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