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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 19 km WSW of Diwopu, China


Earthquake location 43.7975S, 87.2746WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Diwopu in China. Unique identifier: us70009n6v. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009n6v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 87.2746 East, latitude 43.7975 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:26:30 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 23:26:30 / May 15, 2020 @ 11:26 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ürümqi, Yan’an Beilu. The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Ürümqi (c. 3 029 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Yan’an Beilu (c. 198 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 have been detected nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 19 km WSW of Diwopu, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 87.2746° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.7975° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km WSW of Diwopu, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-15 23:26:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-23 03:57:44 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 259 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 4.599 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us70009n6v Id of event.
Event Code 70009n6v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009n6v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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