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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Nongstoin in India


Earthquake location 25.791S, 91.0486WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Nongstoin in India on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 20:00:54 / 8:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 91.0486 East, latitude 25.791 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jjsb. Unique identifier: us1000jjsb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/03/19 / 2019-03-21 14:30:54 / March 21, 2019 @ 2:30 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Guwahati (c. 899 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Shillong (c. 132 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Bongaigaon (c. 64 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tura (c. 63 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Goālpāra (c. 50 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Barpeta (c. 48 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rangia, Bongaigaon, Tura. Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 37 km NW of Nongstoin, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 91.0486° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.791° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km NW of Nongstoin, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-21 14:30:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-21 18:55:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3 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 285 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 0.762 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us1000jjsb Id of event.
Event Code 1000jjsb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jjsb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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