A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Dipayal in Nepal. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.08 km (18 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 81.4054 East, latitude 29.6463 North, depth = 29.08 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000362n. Unique identifier: us7000362n. The temblor was detected at 04:27:46 / 4:27 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/04/19 / 2019-04-14 22:42:46 / April 14, 2019 @ 10:42 pm.
Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Dipayal (c. 23 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Dadeldhurā (c. 19 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Dārchulā (c. 18 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Jumla (c. 9 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Dhārchula (c. 7 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Burang (c. 5 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dadeldhurā, Dhārchula, Dārchulā (min 5000 pop).
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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 62 km NE of Dipayal, Nepal.
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