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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 55 km SE of Shihezi, China


Earthquake location 43.8874S, 86.4162WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Shihezi in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000gc10. Unique identifier: us1000gc10. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:43:28 / 7:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 86.4162 East, latitude 43.8874 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/08/18 / 2018-08-17 23:43:28 / August 17, 2018 @ 11:43 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Ürümqi (c. 3 029 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Shihezi (c. 572 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Yan’an Beilu (c. 198 800 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ürümqi, Yan’an Beilu, Shihezi (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 55 km SE of Shihezi, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 86.4162° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.8874° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 2018-08-17 23:43:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-18 00:03:38 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 385 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 4.111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us1000gc10 Id of event.
Event Code 1000gc10 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gc10, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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