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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Port Blair in India

Posted by admin on July 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.377S, 93.9335WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 284 km SSE of Port Blair, India (176 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 16:24:24 / July 29, 2025 @ 4:24 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qw0e. Unique identifier: us6000qw0e. Exact location, longitude 93.9335° East, latitude 9.377° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:24:24 / 4:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days sixty 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 284 km SSE of Port Blair, India. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.9335° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.377° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 284 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 2025-07-29 16:24:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-29 17:04:31 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 369 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 97 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.549 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us6000qw0e Id of event.
Event Code 6000qw0e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qw0e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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