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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 123 km ESE of Mohean, India


Earthquake location 7.6178S, 94.3814WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 123 km ESE of Mohean, India (76 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/04/19 / 2019-04-18 21:57:56 / April 18, 2019 @ 9:57 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 94.3814 East, latitude 7.6178 North, depth = 10 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:57:56 / 3:57 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us700038ya. Event ids that are associated: us700038ya.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 123 km ESE of Mohean, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.3814° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.6178° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123km ESE of Mohean, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-18 21:57:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-18 22:16:14 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 385 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 3.483 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700038ya Id of event.
Event Code 700038ya An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700038ya, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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