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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Xinjiang-Qinghai border region, China

Posted by admin on December 6, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.4374S, 90.85WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Xinjiang-Qinghai border region, China (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 90.85° East, 38.4374° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:32:07 / 8:32 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/11/15 / 2015-11-23 00:32:07 / November 23, 2015 @ 12:32 am. Unique identifier: us100040f0. Ids that are associated to the event: us100040f0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Xinjiang-Qinghai border region, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 90.85° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4374° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Xinjiang-Qinghai border region, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-23 00:32:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-06 03:56:36 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 284 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 10.315 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us100040f0 Id of event.
Event Code 100040f0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040f0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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