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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Zongyang in China

Posted by admin on April 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.8384S, 117.3005WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Zongyang in China. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000dx4x. Id of event: us2000dx4x. The temblor was reported at 23:55:09 / 11:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/04/18 / 2018-04-06 15:55:09 / April 6, 2018 @ 3:55 pm. Exact location, longitude 117.3005° East, latitude 30.8384° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Anqing (c. 358 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Wusong (c. 312 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Chizhou (c. 148 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Lucheng (c. 89 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wusong, Lucheng, Anqing.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 18 km NNE of Zongyang, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 117.3005° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.8384° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NNE of Zongyang, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-06 15:55:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-09 21:40:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 169 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 6.423 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000dx4x Id of event.
Event Code 2000dx4x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dx4x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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