Earthquake Details

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude
Date-Time

5.0

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 23:40:14 UTC

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 05:10:14 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

26.093N, 87.751E
40 km (24.9 miles)
NEPAL-INDIA BORDER REGION
63 km (39 miles) SE of Biratnagar, Nepal
63 km (39 miles) NNE of Katihar, Bihar, India
Distances
395 km (245 miles) N of Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India
1080 km (671 miles) ESE of NEW DELHI, Delhi, India
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 18 km (11.2 miles); depth +/- 7.1 km (4.4 miles)
NST=120, Nph=120, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.67 sec, Gp= 43,
Parameters
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=7
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Source
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID
usc0008r97

Location
Depth
Region

Magnitude 5.0 NEPAL-INDIA BORDER REGION

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 23:40:14 UTC

Major Tectonic Boundaries: Subduction Zones -purple, Ridges -red and Transform Faults -green
The most recent (20 or less) USGS Moment Tensor Solutions are shown.
Data from the Source Parameter Database.
E P I C E N T E R
|
MOMENT |
P R I N C
I P A L A X E S
|N O D A L P L A N E S |
DATE
TIME (UTC)
LAT
LONG SRC|DEPTH
VAL EX |
T
N
P
|
1
2
| % SRC
YR MO DA HR MN SEC
deg
deg
| km Mw
Nm
|VAL PL AZM
VAL PL AZM VAL PL AZM|STK DP SLIP STK DP SLIP| DC
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1988 02 06 14:50:45.29 24.688

91.570 PDE| 34.0 5.8 6.0
0.19 53 240 -6.08 8 340|112 59 158 214 72
33| 94 GS
1988 08 20 23:09: 9.56 26.755
86.616 PDE| 44.0 6.8 2.1
0.01 53 323 -2.15 31 181|217 54 -10 312 82 -144| 99 GS
1992 07 30 08:24:46.65 29.584
90.163 PDE| 10.0 6.1 1.7
0.00 19 269 -1.66 71 88|251 48 -116 107 48 -64|100 GS
1993 03 20 14:51:59.77 29.084
87.333 PDE|
65 265|355 70 -90 175 20 -90|
GS
2006 02 23 20:04:53.55 26.912
91.705 PDE| 14.0 5.8 5.4
0.66 85 14 -5.73 5 180|315 86 -177 225 87
-4| 77 GS
2008 10 06 08:30:45.57 29.807
90.350 PDE| 7.0 6.1 1.9
-0.20 16 197 -1.79 73 26| 35 45 -67 184 49 -111| 80 GS
2008 10 08 14:07:16.29 29.757
90.328 PDE| 2.0 5.4 1.4
0.52 2 210 -1.64 87 35| 33 45 -86 208 45 -94| 37 GS
2009 09 21 08:53: 5.91 27.332
91.437 PDE| 7.0 6.1 1.6
-0.01 3 95 -1.62 45 189| 12 4 -173 276 90 -86| 99 GS
2009 11 07 20:08:46.29 29.490
86.008 PDE| 6.0 5.4 1.5
0.45 14
9 -1.67 74 212|358 52 -108 206 41 -68| 46 GS

Date of Occurrence:
28/03/2012

Time:
05:10:08.0 HRS(IST)

Intensity:
SLIGHT

Magnitude:
4.9

Epicentre:
Lat. 26.1N Long. 87.8E

Region:
INDIA - NEPAL BORDER REGION

17 |5.90 36

76

19 |2.14 19

79

18 |1.66
|

0 179
25

85

17 |5.08

1 270

18 |1.99

2 288

17 |1.12

0 300

18 |1.64 44
17 |1.22

5 101