Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Ulsan in South Korea


Earthquake location 35.5119S, 129.8661WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Ulsan in South Korea on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/16 / 2016-07-05 11:33:03 / July 5, 2016 @ 11:33 am. Event id: us1000601a. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000601a. The temblor was detected at 20:33:03 / 8:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 129.8661° East, 35.5119° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miryang, Eisen, Kimhae. Close country/countries that might be effected, South Korea (c. 48 423 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (54 miles) from Busan (c. 3 678 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ulsan (c. 962 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Pohang (c. 500 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Kimhae (c. 356 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Kyonju (c. 155 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ungsang (c. 83 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Yangsan (c. 71 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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.

Did you feel anything?

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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 49 km E of Ulsan, South Korea.

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.8661° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5119° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km E of Ulsan, 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 2016-07-05 11:33:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-05 11:53:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 359 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 0.669 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 us1000601a Id of event.
Event Code 1000601a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000601a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply