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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Kon Tum in Vietnam


Earthquake location 14.7782S, 108.3142WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Kon Tum in Vietnam on Tuesday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:05:04 / 1:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 108.3142 East, latitude 14.7782 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000mx6b. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mx6b. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/04/24 / 2024-04-30 01:05:04 / April 30, 2024 @ 1:05 am. 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).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Vietnam (c. 89 571 000 pop). The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Pleiku (c. 114 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tam Kỳ (c. 59 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kon Tum (c. 47 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Quảng Ngãi (c. 33 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pleiku, Tam Kỳ, Quảng Ngãi (min 5000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 57 km NE of Kon Tum, Vietnam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 108.3142° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7782° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 km NE of Kon Tum, Vietnam Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-30 01:05:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-09 02:08:20 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.269 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us6000mx6b Id of event.
Event Code 6000mx6b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mx6b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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