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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Mohean in India


Earthquake location 7.4131S, 94.3901WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 133 km ESE of Mohean, India (83 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 99.22 km (62 miles). Exact location of event, depth 99.22 km, 94.3901° East, 7.4131° North. The temblor was detected at 08:53:07 / 8:53 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j4uw. Unique identifier: us2000j4uw. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/01/19 / 2019-01-17 02:53:07 / January 17, 2019 @ 2:53 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 133 km ESE of Mohean, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.3901° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.4131° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 133km ESE of Mohean, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-17 02:53:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-17 03:09:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 449 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 3.342 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us2000j4uw Id of event.
Event Code 2000j4uw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j4uw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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