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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Bamboo Flat in India


Earthquake location 12.8396S, 92.6303WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 126 km N of Bamboo Flat, India (78 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 92.6303 East, latitude 12.8396 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us70007q7n. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007q7n. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:18:50 / 2:18 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/02/20 / 2020-02-09 08:48:50 / February 9, 2020 @ 8:48 am UTC/GMT.

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

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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: 126 km N of Bamboo Flat, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.6303° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8396° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 126km N of Bamboo Flat, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-09 08:48:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-08 11:40:08 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 298 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 1.181 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us70007q7n Id of event.
Event Code 70007q7n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007q7n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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