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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Shihezi in China

Posted by admin on May 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.8544S, 86.4475WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Shihezi in China. The temblor was reported at 14:46:36 / 2:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/05/18 / 2018-05-04 06:46:36 / May 4, 2018 @ 6:46 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dxq3. Unique identifier: us1000dxq3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.97 km (20 miles). Exact location, longitude 86.4475° East, latitude 43.8544° North, depth = 32.97 km.

Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Ürümqi (c. 3 029 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Shihezi (c. 572 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Yan’an Beilu (c. 198 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ürümqi, Yan’an Beilu, Shihezi.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 59 km SE of Shihezi, China.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 86.4475° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.8544° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km SE of Shihezi, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-04 06:46:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-04 07:08:07 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 271 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 4.151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 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 us1000dxq3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dxq3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dxq3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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