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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Yuecheng in China

Posted by admin on May 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.5838S, 102.768WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Yuecheng in China. Exact location, longitude 102.768° East, latitude 28.5838° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/05/18 / 2018-05-01 20:28:45 / May 1, 2018 @ 8:28 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:28:45 / 4:28 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000dzy2. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dzy2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Xichang (c. 126 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Xichang (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km ESE of Yuecheng, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.768° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.5838° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km ESE of Yuecheng, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-01 20:28:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-28 21:39:30 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 284 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 6.104 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us1000dzy2 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dzy2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dzy2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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