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Light earthquake 4 mag, 5 km ESE of Abu, India


Earthquake location 24.5748S, 72.7441WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Abu in India. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 72.7441 East, latitude 24.5748 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 05/06/19 / 2019-06-05 17:01:12 / June 5, 2019 @ 5:01 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:31:12 / 10:31 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70003vv0. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003vv0.

Close country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Pālanpur (c. 123 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Dīsa (c. 92 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Siddhapur (c. 54 300 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ābu Road (c. 50 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Jalor (c. 49 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Bhīnmāl (c. 42 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bāli, Vadnagar, Takhatgarh (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 one 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 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 5 km ESE of Abu, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.7441° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.5748° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km ESE of Abu, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-05 17:01:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-05 22:01:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 247 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 9.055 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us70003vv0 Id of event.
Event Code 70003vv0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003vv0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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