Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Bamboo Flat in India

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Bamboo Flat in India. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/11/24 / 2024-11-14 09:37:05 / November 14, 2024 @ 9:37 am UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:37:05 / 9:37 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000nuy3. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nuy3. Exact location, longitude 92.8301° East, latitude 11.9804° North, depth = 56.21 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.21 km (35 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Port Blair (c. 112 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Bamboo Flat (c. 7 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port Blair, Bamboo Flat (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 five 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km NNE of Bamboo Flat, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	92.8301° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.9804° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	56.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 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	2024-11-14 09:37:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-12 12:17:55	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	326	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.58	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us7000nuy3	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nuy3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nuy3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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