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Strong earthquake, 6.4 mag has occurred near Dartang in China

Posted by admin on October 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.9103S, 94.8716WA earthquake with magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 135 km NE of Dartang, China (84 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007eqh. Id of event: us20007eqh. The temblor was picked up at 15:14:50 / 3:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.06 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 94.8716° East, latitude 32.9103° North, depth = 32.06 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/10/16 / 2016-10-17 07:14:50 / October 17, 2016 @ 7:14 am.

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.8716° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9103° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135km NE of Dartang, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-17 07:14:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-17 07:41:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.69 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 630 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 7.776 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 16 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20007eqh Id of event.
Event Code 20007eqh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007eqh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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