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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Ürümqi in China


Earthquake location 43.273S, 87.6562WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Ürümqi in China. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000bawp. Unique identifier: us6000bawp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/20 / 2020-08-08 00:35:08 / August 8, 2020 @ 12:35 am. The temblor was detected at 00:35:08 / 12:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 87.6562° East, latitude 43.273° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yan’an Beilu, Ürümqi (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Ürümqi (c. 3 029 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Yan’an Beilu (c. 198 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 58 km S of Ürümqi, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 87.6562° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.273° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km S of Ürümqi, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-08 00:35:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-08 00:53:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 432 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 5.181 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 us6000bawp Id of event.
Event Code 6000bawp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bawp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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