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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 34 km WNW of Wuhai, China

Posted by admin on April 15, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.736S, 106.4254WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (mg/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Wuhai in China. The temblor was reported at 15:39:27 / 3:39 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time of event 15/04/15 / 2015-04-15 07:39:27 / April 15, 2015 @ 7:39 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 106.4254 East, latitude 39.736 North, depth 10 km, unique identifier, us200026mr.

Close countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Wuhai (c. 218 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Shizuishan (c. 136 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Dawukou (c. 131 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Wuda (c. 129 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Shitanjing (c. 78 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dawukou, Shizuishan, Shitanjing.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.4254° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.736° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km WNW of Wuhai, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-04-15 07:39:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-15 07:53:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 432 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 8.096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us200026mr Id of event.
Event Code 200026mr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200026mr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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