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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 66 km NNE of Xujiaba, China


Earthquake location 28.434S, 108.3887WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Xujiaba in China. 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: 02/10/19 / 2019-10-02 12:04:35 / October 2, 2019 @ 12:04 pm. Event id: us70005psh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005psh. The temblor was reported at 20:04:35 / 8:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 108.3887 East, latitude 28.434 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shiqian (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 103 km (64 miles) from Shiqian (c. 9 600 pop).

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. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 66 km NNE of Xujiaba, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 108.3887° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.434° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km NNE of Xujiaba, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-02 12:04:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-02 12:21:34 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 8.038 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us70005psh Id of event.
Event Code 70005psh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005psh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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