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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Lobuche in Nepal


Earthquake location 28.347S, 87.2123WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Lobuche in Nepal on Monday. Exact location, longitude 87.2123° East, latitude 28.347° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000pjq4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pjq4. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:19:08 / 3:19 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/01/25 / 2025-01-13 15:19:08 / January 13, 2025 @ 3:19 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lobujya (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Lobujya (c. 8 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days thirty 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 59 km NE of Lobuche, Nepal.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 87.2123° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.347° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59 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 2025-01-13 15:19:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-13 16:18:15 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 284 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 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.685 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us6000pjq4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pjq4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pjq4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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