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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Xunchang in China


Earthquake location 28.2749S, 104.2709WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Xunchang in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d2l2. Id of event: us7000d2l2. Exact location of earthquake, 104.2709° East, 28.2749° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/01/21 / 2021-01-23 01:59:11 / January 23, 2021 @ 1:59 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 01:59:11 / 1:59 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yibin, Xunchang (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Xunchang (c. 64 600 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km WSW of Xunchang, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.2709° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.2749° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47 km WSW of Xunchang, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-23 01:59:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-23 02:17:33 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 6.927 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 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 us7000d2l2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000d2l2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d2l2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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