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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Port Blair in India


Earthquake location 9.4747S, 93.8617WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 271 km SSE of Port Blair, India (168 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 93.8617 East, latitude 9.4747 North, depth = 113.432 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/06/25 / 2025-06-27 14:58:23 / June 27, 2025 @ 2:58 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:58:23 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000q938. Unique identifier: us7000q938. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 113.432 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 271 km SSE of Port Blair, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.8617° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.4747° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.432 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 271 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 2025-06-27 14:58:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-27 15:14:39 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 385 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.211 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us7000q938 Id of event.
Event Code 7000q938 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q938, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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