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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 147 km NE of Port Blair, India


Earthquake location 12.5088S, 93.7981WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 147 km NE of Port Blair, India (91 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000rmdj. Event ids that are associated: us6000rmdj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 133.186 km (83 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/25 / 2025-11-09 06:38:31 / November 9, 2025 @ 6:38 am. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:38:31 / 6:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 93.7981° East, 12.5088° North, depth 133.186 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 147 km NE of Port Blair, India.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.7981° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.5088° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.186 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147 km NE 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 2025-11-09 06:38:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-09 06:56:07 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 465 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 87 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.893 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rmdj Id of event.
Event Code 6000rmdj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rmdj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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