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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 15 km W of Churachandpur, India


Earthquake location 24.3073S, 93.5196WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Churachandpur in India. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/03/19 / 2019-03-25 12:41:25 / March 25, 2019 @ 12:41 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.91 km (34 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:11:25 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000jl91. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000jl91. Exact location of event, longitude 93.5196 East, latitude 24.3073 North, depth = 54.91 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lāla, Silchar, Kolasib (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Silchar (c. 152 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Churāchāndpur (c. 47 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kolasib (c. 25 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayāng Imphāl (c. 22 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 15 km W of Churachandpur, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.5196° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.3073° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km W of Churachandpur, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-25 12:41:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-25 13:49:10 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 326 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 0.716 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us1000jl91 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jl91 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jl91, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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