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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Youdian in China


Earthquake location 25.0973S, 99.527WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Youdian in China on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.05 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 99.527 East, latitude 25.0973 North, depth = 30.05 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/10/15 / 2015-10-30 11:26:44 / October 30, 2015 @ 11:26 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:26:44 / 7:26 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us200040pj. Ids that are associated to the event: us200040pj.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dali. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Dali (c. 134 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km NNW of Youdian, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.527° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.0973° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km NNW of Youdian, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-30 11:26:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-30 11:46:04 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 400 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 5.506 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us200040pj Id of event.
Event Code 200040pj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200040pj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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