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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Daxing in China

Posted by admin on February 1, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 27.4848S, 100.7555WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Daxing in China on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/02/19 / 2019-02-01 21:26:12 / February 1, 2019 @ 9:26 pm. The temblor was picked up at 05:26:12 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.7555 East, latitude 27.4848 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jc5g. Unique identifier: us2000jc5g. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Lijiang (c. 1 137 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lijiang (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one 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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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. 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: 26 km NNW of Daxing, China.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.7555° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.4848° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km NNW of Daxing, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-01 21:26:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-01 21:40:56 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 6.262 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us2000jc5g Id of event.
Event Code 2000jc5g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jc5g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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