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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 184 km S of Port Blair, India


Earthquake location 9.9945S, 92.7724WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 184 km S of Port Blair, India (114 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000jimq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jimq. Exact location of event, longitude 92.7724 East, latitude 9.9945 North, depth = 55.04 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/03/19 / 2019-03-10 13:20:08 / March 10, 2019 @ 1:20 pm. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:20:08 / 7:20 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.04 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 184 km S of Port Blair, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.7724° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.9945° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 184km S of Port Blair, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-10 13:20:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-19 18:53:22 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 340 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 1.651 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 124 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 us1000jimq Id of event.
Event Code 1000jimq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jimq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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