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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Uttarkashi in India

Posted by admin on June 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.7351S, 78.9513WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Uttarkashi in India on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ejt1. Id of event: us1000ejt1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/06/18 / 2018-06-06 17:41:24 / June 6, 2018 @ 5:41 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 78.9513° East, 30.7351° North. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:11:24 / 11:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Rishīkesh (c. 66 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Rāipur (c. 27 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Tehri (c. 27 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Pauri (c. 26 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Mussoorie (c. 25 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Srīnagar (c. 20 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Uttarkāshi (c. 17 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rāipur, Rishīkesh, Mussoorie (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 48 km E of Uttarkashi, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.9513° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.7351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km E of Uttarkashi, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-06 17:41:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-06 21:53:34 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 312 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 9.077 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us1000ejt1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ejt1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ejt1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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