Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Hongtu in China

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Hongtu in China. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006djc. Id of event: us10006djc. Exact location of event, longitude 101.5785 East, latitude 37.7255 North, depth = 21.07 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 16:29:50 / 4:29 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.07 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/08/16 / 2016-08-13 08:29:50 / August 13, 2016 @ 8:29 am.

Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jinchang, Wuwei (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Wuwei (c. 493 100 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Jinchang (c. 144 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 62 km ESE of Hongtu, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	101.5785° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.7255° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	62km ESE of Hongtu, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-13 08:29:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-13 08:48:42	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	10.702	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	us10006djc	Id of event.
Event Code	10006djc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006djc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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