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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Xinmian in China

Posted by admin on March 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.5746S, 102.1424WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Xinmian in China on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 102.1424° East, 29.5746° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/03/16 / 2016-03-24 22:03:56 / March 24, 2016 @ 10:03 pm. Id of earthquake: us20005cbw. Event ids that are associated: us20005cbw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:03:56 / 6:03 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Kangding (c. 100 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kangding (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 43 km NNW of Xinmian, China.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.1424° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.5746° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km NNW of Xinmian, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-24 22:03:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-25 00:38:50 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 6.419 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us20005cbw Id of event.
Event Code 20005cbw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005cbw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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