Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Jiajuedibu in China

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 102 km WSW of Jiajuedibu, China (63 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/18 / 2018-08-01 15:46:24 / August 1, 2018 @ 3:46 pm. The temblor was reported at 23:46:24 / 11:46 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 87.7292 East, latitude 30.436 North, depth = 11.77 km. Event id: us2000gj0i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gj0i. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.77 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 102 km WSW of Jiajuedibu, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	87.7292° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.436° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	102km WSW of Jiajuedibu, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-01 15:46:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-01 16:05:50	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	400	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	2.595	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	us2000gj0i	Id of event.
Event Code	2000gj0i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000gj0i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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