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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Shache in China


Earthquake location 38.1145S, 76.8822WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Shache in China. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:45:26 / 10:45 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/10/20 / 2020-10-17 22:45:26 / October 17, 2020 @ 10:45 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000c921. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c921. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 76.8822° East, 38.1145° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shache (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Shache (c. 82 500 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km SW of Shache, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 76.8822° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1145° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45 km SW of Shache, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-17 22:45:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-17 23:00:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 3.377 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 82 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 us6000c921 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c921 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c921, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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