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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 14 km SW of Kyonju, South Korea

Posted by admin on September 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7574S, 129.0961WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Kyonju in South Korea. Exact location, longitude 129.0961° East, latitude 35.7574° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/09/16 / 2016-09-12 10:44:33 / September 12, 2016 @ 10:44 am. The temblor was picked up at 19:44:33 / 7:44 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10006p12. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006p12. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Busan (c. 3 678 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Daegu (c. 2 566 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ulsan (c. 962 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Changwon (c. 550 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Pohang (c. 500 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kimhae (c. 356 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Gumi (c. 291 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, South Korea (c. 48 423 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gimcheon, Andong, Jenzan (min 5000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km SW of Kyonju, South Korea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.0961° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7574° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SW of Kyonju, 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 2016-09-12 10:44:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-12 11:00:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 40 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.9 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 389 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 0.507 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us10006p12 Id of event.
Event Code 10006p12 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006p12, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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