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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Yairipok in India


Earthquake location 24.4383S, 94.9928WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 97 km ESE of Yairipok, India (60 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 115.32 km (72 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:13:05 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70007kw7. Event ids that are associated: us70007kw7. Exact location of event, depth 115.32 km, 94.9928° East, 24.4383° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 13:43:05 / January 29, 2020 @ 1:43 pm UTC/GMT.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty 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: 97 km ESE of Yairipok, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.9928° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.4383° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km ESE of Yairipok, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-29 13:43:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-19 07:16:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 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 284 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 0.664 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us70007kw7 Id of event.
Event Code 70007kw7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007kw7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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