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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Kuqa in China

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Earthquake location 41.9886S, 82.6901WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Kuqa in China on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mdun. Id of event: us7000mdun. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 13:08:48 / April 22, 2024 @ 1:08 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 82.6901 East, latitude 41.9886 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 13:08:48 / 1:08 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kuche. Epicenter of the event was 35 km (22 miles) from Kuche (c. 68 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 36 km NNW of Kuqa, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 82.6901° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.9886° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km NNW of Kuqa, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-22 13:08:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-30 19:35:00 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 326 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 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.716 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us7000mdun Id of event.
Event Code 7000mdun An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mdun, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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