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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Bamboo Flat in India


Earthquake location 14.0469S, 93.1576WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 264 km N of Bamboo Flat, India (164 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/03/19 / 2019-03-23 11:34:04 / March 23, 2019 @ 11:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 93.1576° East, 14.0469° North, depth 30.04 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:34:04 / 5:34 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 30.04 km (19 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jkna. Id of event: us1000jkna.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 264 km N of Bamboo Flat, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.1576° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0469° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 264km N of Bamboo Flat, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-23 11:34:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-23 11:49:25 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 400 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 12.638 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000jkna Id of event.
Event Code 1000jkna An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jkna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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