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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Goālpāra in India


Earthquake location 26.1587S, 90.557WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Goālpāra in India. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 16:56:51 / 4:56 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.34 km (22 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000cptt. Unique identifier: us7000cptt. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/20 / 2020-12-10 16:56:51 / December 10, 2020 @ 4:56 pm. Exact location, longitude 90.557° East, latitude 26.1587° North, depth = 35.34 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Bongaigaon (c. 64 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Tura (c. 63 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Dhuburi (c. 62 500 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Goālpāra (c. 50 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Nageswari (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Barpeta (c. 48 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tufānganj, Nageswari, Sarpang (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 7 km WSW of Goālpāra, 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 90.557° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.1587° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km WSW of Goālpāra, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-10 16:56:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-10 23:08:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 285 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 1.31 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us7000cptt Id of event.
Event Code 7000cptt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cptt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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