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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Bageshwar in India


Earthquake location 30.102S, 80.0632WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Bageshwar in India. Id of earthquake: us70007lc7. Event ids that are associated: us70007lc7. Exact location, longitude 80.0632° East, latitude 30.102° North, depth = 48.24 km. Global time and date of event 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 01:01:50 / February 8, 2020 @ 1:01 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.24 km (30 miles). The temblor was reported at 06:31:50 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Pithorāgarh (c. 47 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Naini Tāl (c. 42 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Almora (c. 32 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Rānīkhet (c. 19 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Dārchulā (c. 18 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Joshīmath (c. 13 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Bāgeshwar (c. 8 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naini Tāl, Bhīm Tāl, Bhowāli.

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. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 39 km NE of Bageshwar, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 80.0632° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.102° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NE of Bageshwar, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-08 01:01:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-08 01:21:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 330 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 340 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 6.775 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us70007lc7 Id of event.
Event Code 70007lc7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007lc7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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