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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Mungyeong in South Korea

Posted by admin on January 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6882S, 127.9929WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Mungyeong in South Korea. Id of earthquake: us60007jla. Event ids that are associated: us60007jla. The temblor was picked up at 00:52:53 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 127.9929° East, latitude 36.6882° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 15:52:53 / January 29, 2020 @ 3:52 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gongju, Icheon-si, Songwon (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (41 miles) from Daejeon (c. 1 475 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Cheongju-si (c. 634 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cheonan (c. 365 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Gumi (c. 291 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Wŏnju (c. 243 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Icheon-si (c. 196 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, South Korea (c. 48 423 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 21 km WNW of Mungyeong, South Korea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.9929° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6882° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WNW of Mungyeong, South Korea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-29 15:52:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-29 23:02:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 189 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 0.594 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 244 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007jla Id of event.
Event Code 60007jla An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007jla, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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