Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Phek in India

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Phek in India. Global time and date of event 04/04/19 / 2019-04-04 07:45:30 / April 4, 2019 @ 7:45 am UTC/GMT. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:15:30 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63.09 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000ka3r. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ka3r. Exact location, longitude 94.4083° East, latitude 25.4446° North, depth = 63.09 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Diphu, Barpathār, Mayāng Imphāl (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Dimāpur (c. 135 900 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Kohima (c. 92 100 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Diphu (c. 57 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Wokha (c. 54 000 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Mokokchūng (c. 34 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	94.4083° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	25.4446° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	63.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km SSW of Phek, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-04-04 07:45:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-04 08:09:19	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	3.4	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	433	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	1.213	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	26	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	us2000ka3r	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ka3r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ka3r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

94.4083° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

25.4446° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

63.09 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

26km SSW of Phek, India

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2019-04-04 07:45:30

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-04-04 08:09:19

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

3.4

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

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

433

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.213

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.48 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us2000ka3r

Id of event.

Event Code

2000ka3r

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us2000ka3r,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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