Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Magong in China

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Magong in China on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 14:14:36 / 2:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/09/17 / 2017-09-30 06:14:36 / September 30, 2017 @ 6:14 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000ax3v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ax3v. Exact location of earthquake, 105.0015° East, 32.3196° North, depth 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Mianyang (c. 264 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guangyuan (c. 213 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Jiangyou (c. 127 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mianyang, Guangyuan, Jiangyou (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 3 km WSW of Magong, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	105.0015° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.3196° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km WSW of Magong, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-30 06:14:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-30 06:43:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	18	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.39	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	470	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	12.003	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	19	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	us2000ax3v	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ax3v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ax3v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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