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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Yonmu in South Korea

Posted by admin on December 21, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.1329S, 127.0186WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Yonmu in South Korea on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us100048nj. Event ids that are associated: us100048nj. Exact location, longitude 127.0186° East, latitude 36.1329° North, depth = 14.23 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.23 km (9 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:31:26 / 4:31 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/12/15 / 2015-12-21 19:31:26 / December 21, 2015 @ 7:31 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tangjin, Chinch’ŏn, Suisan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, South Korea (c. 48 423 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Daejeon (c. 1 475 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Jeonju (c. 711 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Cheongju-si (c. 634 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cheonan (c. 365 100 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Iksan (c. 283 500 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Kunsan (c. 243 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km W of Yonmu, South Korea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.0186° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km W of Yonmu, South Korea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-21 19:31:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-21 22:17:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 300 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 1.379 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us100048nj Id of event.
Event Code 100048nj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100048nj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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