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M6.1
Cape Edinburgh Earthquake, 2007 |
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Date: |
26
July 2007 |
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Epicentre: |
W of
Cape Edinburgh, Little Nicobar Island |
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Time: |
23:37:32
UTC (05:07:32 IST) |
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Latitude: |
07.084
N (NEIC) |
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Longitude: |
92.588
E (NEIC) |
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Depth: |
5.0 kms (NEIC) |
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Magnitude: |
Mw
6.1 (NEIC),
6.0 (HRV) |
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A strong
earthquake occurred in the Bay of Bengal off Cape Edinburgh
on the west coast of Little Nicobar Island, on
26
July
2007 at 05:07
local time.
The earthquake had a magnitude of Mw=6.1
and was felt in some of the neighbouring regions as far as Phuket,
Thailand.
The earthquake was centred
149 kms W of Cape Edinburgh (Little Nicobar Island), India,
151 kms SSW of West Bay (Katchall Island), India,
159 kms SW of Kalara (Teresa Island), India,
175 kms WNW of Indira Point (Great Nicobar Island), India,
183 kms W of Campbell Bay (Great Nicobar Island), India,
238 kms SSW of IAF Malacca (Car Nicobar Island), India,
377 kms WNW of Banda Aceh (Aceh, Sumatra), Indonesia,
513 kms S of Port Blair (South Andaman Island), India.
If you felt this
earthquake please take the time to fill out a
felt report questionnaire. Given
the location of this earthquake the likelihood of damage would be low
but it would have been felt in the Nicobar
Islands. However, at the present time felt information from the
islands or elsewhere in the region is unavailable. Tremors were
perceptible on Pulau Weh off the northern tip of Aceh
along with Meulaboh on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia as well as
on Phuket Island
in Thailand. Slight
fluctuations in the sea level might have occurred in the Nicobar Islands
due to the possibility of underwater landslides triggered by the
earthquake. No tsunami watch or warning was issued for this
earthquake given its size.
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References
01)
National
Earthquake Information Centre (NEIC), Golden, USA.
02)
Harvard Centroid Moment Tensor Solution (HRV), Harvard, USA.
03)
Macroseismic information has been compiled by
the ASC from reports by local media and local NGO personnel.
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