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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 175 km WSW of Aksu, China


Earthquake location 40.7533S, 78.2421WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 175 km WSW of Aksu, China (109 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 78.2421° East, latitude 40.7533° North, depth = 10.84 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006dd6. Id of event: us10006dd6. The temblor was picked up at 02:00:57 / 2:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/08/16 / 2016-08-12 18:00:57 / August 12, 2016 @ 6:00 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.84 km (7 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 175 km WSW of Aksu, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.2421° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.7533° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 175km WSW of Aksu, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-12 18:00:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-12 18:22:32 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 416 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 3.379 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 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 us10006dd6 Id of event.
Event Code 10006dd6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006dd6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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