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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Ziro in India


Earthquake location 28.1205S, 93.9189WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Ziro in India. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009as6. Id of event: us60009as6. The temblor was detected at 16:29:11 / 4:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/04/20 / 2020-04-17 10:59:11 / April 17, 2020 @ 10:59 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 93.9189 East, latitude 28.1205 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Along (c. 18 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ziro (c. 13 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Along, Ziro (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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 54 km N of Ziro, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.9189° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.1205° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km N of Ziro, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-17 10:59:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-24 06:51:52 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 259 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 2.911 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us60009as6 Id of event.
Event Code 60009as6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009as6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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