Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 280 km SSE of Port Blair, India

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 280 km SSE of Port Blair, India (174 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 93.8621 East, latitude 9.3818 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us7000q8f1. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000q8f1. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/06/25 / 2025-06-24 12:53:19 / June 24, 2025 @ 12:53 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:53:19 / 12:53 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 280 km SSE of Port Blair, India. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	93.8621° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.3818° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	280 km SSE of Port Blair, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-24 12:53:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-24 13:45:24	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.137	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	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	us7000q8f1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000q8f1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000q8f1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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