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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 49 km NE of Lobuche, Nepal


Earthquake location 28.2465S, 87.1829WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Lobuche in Nepal. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:22:15 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000piev. Id of event: us6000piev. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/01/25 / 2025-01-07 12:22:15 / January 7, 2025 @ 12:22 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 87.1829 East, latitude 28.2465 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lobujya (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Lobujya (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 49 km NE of Lobuche, Nepal.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 87.1829° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.2465° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49 km NE of Lobuche, Nepal Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-07 12:22:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-08 09:24:30 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 271 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.748 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us6000piev Id of event.
Event Code 6000piev An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000piev, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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