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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 41 km WNW of Kuqa, China

Posted by admin on October 21, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.8165S, 82.448WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Kuqa in China on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:42:01 / 4:42 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/10/18 / 2018-10-21 08:42:01 / October 21, 2018 @ 8:42 am. Id of earthquake: us1000hf7v. Event ids that are associated: us1000hf7v. Exact location of event, longitude 82.448 East, latitude 41.8165 North, depth = 10 km.

The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Kuche (c. 68 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kuche.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 41 km WNW of Kuqa, China.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 82.448° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8165° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km WNW of Kuqa, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-21 08:42:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-21 09:22:26 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 312 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 2.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us1000hf7v Id of event.
Event Code 1000hf7v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hf7v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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