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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Bamboo Flat in India


Earthquake location 13.3206S, 93.1216WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 184 km NNE of Bamboo Flat, India (114 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:45:24 / 4:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 93.1216° East, latitude 13.3206° North, depth = 27.18 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.18 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/08/24 / 2024-08-21 16:45:24 / August 21, 2024 @ 4:45 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ndjh. Id of event: us7000ndjh.

Every 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. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 184 km NNE of Bamboo Flat, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.1216° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.3206° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 184 km NNE 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 2024-08-21 16:45:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-15 02:44:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.924 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us7000ndjh Id of event.
Event Code 7000ndjh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ndjh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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