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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Port Blair in India


Earthquake location 12.4345S, 93.5064WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 118 km NE of Port Blair, India (73 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 93.5064 East, latitude 12.4345 North, depth = 105.87 km. 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: 15/04/19 / 2019-04-15 13:33:49 / April 15, 2019 @ 1:33 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 105.87 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:33:49 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70003bdi. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003bdi.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 118 km NE of Port Blair, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.5064° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.4345° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 105.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118km NE of Port Blair, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-15 13:33:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-24 15:48:12 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 271 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 1.075 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us70003bdi Id of event.
Event Code 70003bdi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003bdi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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