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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 29 km WSW of Turt, Mongolia


Earthquake location 51.4476S, 100.2514WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 29 km WSW of Turt, Mongolia (18 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:02:24 / 11:02 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/21 / 2021-01-11 23:02:24 / January 11, 2021 @ 11:02 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000d7kd. Event ids that are associated: us6000d7kd. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 100.2514° East, 51.4476° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 29 km WSW of Turt, Mongolia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.2514° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4476° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km WSW of Turt, Mongolia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-11 23:02:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-11 23:17:51 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 385 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 2.13 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us6000d7kd Id of event.
Event Code 6000d7kd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d7kd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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