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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Yilkiqi in China


Earthquake location 37.4745S, 78.1031WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Yilkiqi in China. The temblor was picked up at 21:23:48 / 9:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 39.38 km, 78.1031° East, 37.4745° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 13:23:48 / July 24, 2015 @ 1:23 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20002zuu. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002zuu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.38 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Zangguy (c. 13 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zangguy.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 92 km SE of Yilkiqi, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.1031° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4745° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km SE of Yilkiqi, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-24 13:23:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-24 13:49:20 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 385 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 4.699 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us20002zuu Id of event.
Event Code 20002zuu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002zuu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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