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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Rāpar in India

Posted by admin on December 25, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.7132S, 70.4226WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Rāpar in India on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000rktm. Event ids that are associated: us7000rktm. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/12/25 / 2025-12-25 23:00:05 / December 25, 2025 @ 11:00 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 70.4226° East, 23.7132° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 23:00:05 / 11:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bhuj, Kāndla, Anjār (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Gāndhīdhām (c. 166 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bhuj (c. 133 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Anjār (c. 66 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kāndla (c. 25 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Bhachāu (c. 24 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Rāpar (c. 21 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 27 km NW of Rāpar, India.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.4226° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7132° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km NW of Rāpar, India Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-25 23:00:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-25 23:19:46 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 13.022 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us7000rktm Id of event.
Event Code 7000rktm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rktm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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