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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Kashgar in China

Posted by admin on May 20, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.14S, 77.0348WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 116 km NE of Kashgar, China (72 miles) on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 77.0348° East, 40.14° North. The temblor was picked up at 05:10:20 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/05/24 / 2024-05-20 05:10:20 / May 20, 2024 @ 5:10 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mzrr. Id of event: us6000mzrr. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 116 km NE of Kashgar, China.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 77.0348° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.14° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116 km NE of Kashgar, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-20 05:10:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-20 05:33:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 7.149 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level pending 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 483 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 89 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.408 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us6000mzrr Id of event.
Event Code 6000mzrr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mzrr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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