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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Mon in India


Earthquake location 26.1703S, 95.7795WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Mon in India. Unique identifier: us70003gm1. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003gm1. The epicenter was at a depth of 100.29 km (62 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 17:34:02 / 5:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 100.29 km, 95.7795° East, 26.1703° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/05/19 / 2019-05-04 11:04:02 / May 4, 2019 @ 11:04 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khonsa, Tuensang, Mon (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 96 km (60 miles) from Tuensang (c. 33 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Mon (c. 18 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Khonsa (c. 10 200 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 have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 93 km SE of Mon, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.7795° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.1703° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km SE of Mon, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-04 11:04:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-04 11:27:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 405 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 2.351 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 18 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 us70003gm1 Id of event.
Event Code 70003gm1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003gm1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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