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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Xinjiang-Qinghai border region, China


Earthquake location 38.9623S, 90.9579WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, Xinjiang-Qinghai border region, China (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/03/19 / 2019-03-15 10:40:53 / March 15, 2019 @ 10:40 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:40:53 / 6:40 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000jgcw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jgcw. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 90.9579 East, latitude 38.9623 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: Xinjiang-Qinghai border region, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 90.9579° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.9623° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Xinjiang-Qinghai border region, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-15 10:40:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-21 15:07:55 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 246 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 9.273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 us1000jgcw Id of event.
Event Code 1000jgcw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jgcw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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