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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Zhongcheng in China

Posted by admin on January 3, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.261S, 104.9842WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Zhongcheng in China. Event id: us2000izyd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000izyd. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:48:08 / 8:48 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/01/19 / 2019-01-03 00:48:08 / January 3, 2019 @ 12:48 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 104.9842 East, latitude 28.261 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yibin, Xunchang (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Xunchang (c. 64 600 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 24 km WSW of Zhongcheng, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.9842° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.261° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km WSW of Zhongcheng, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-03 00:48:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-03 01:06:13 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 416 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 6.974 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us2000izyd Id of event.
Event Code 2000izyd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000izyd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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