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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Wenlan in China

Posted by admin on May 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.2902S, 103.3727WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Wenlan in China. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.15 km (9 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/05/16 / 2016-05-04 07:51:52 / May 4, 2016 @ 7:51 am. Exact location of event, depth 15.15 km, 103.3727° East, 23.2902° North. The temblor was detected at 15:51:52 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10005dk5. Event ids that are associated: us10005dk5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kaihua, Wenshan City, Kaiyuan (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Wenshan City (c. 450 000 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Kaiyuan (c. 198 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Gejiu (c. 136 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kaihua (c. 64 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 10 km SW of Wenlan, China.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.3727° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.2902° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SW of Wenlan, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-04 07:51:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-04 20:43:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 312 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 6.077 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us10005dk5 Id of event.
Event Code 10005dk5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005dk5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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