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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Yujin in China

Posted by admin on May 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.1694S, 103.7641WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Yujin in China on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/05/20 / 2020-05-26 12:34:50 / May 26, 2020 @ 12:34 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:34:50 / 8:34 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70009qly. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009qly. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 103.7641 East, latitude 29.1694 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Leshan (c. 154 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Luocheng (c. 73 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yibin, Leshan, Luocheng (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km WSW of Yujin, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.7641° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.1694° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km WSW of Yujin, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-26 12:34:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-26 12:49:01 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 312 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 8.71 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us70009qly Id of event.
Event Code 70009qly An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009qly, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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