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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag was detected near Nyingchi in China


Earthquake location 29.8347S, 94.9092WA earthquake with magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) was reported 58 km NE of Nyingchi, China (36 miles) on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/11/17 / 2017-11-17 22:34:19 / November 17, 2017 @ 10:34 pm. Unique identifier: us2000bqsn. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bqsn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 06:34:19 / 6:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.9092 East, latitude 29.8347 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 58 km NE of Nyingchi, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.9092° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.8347° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km NE of Nyingchi, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-17 22:34:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-17 22:50:38 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 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 611 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 5.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000bqsn Id of event.
Event Code 2000bqsn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bqsn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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