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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Kon Tum in Vietnam

Posted by admin on May 23, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.7501S, 108.1257WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Kon Tum in Vietnam. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/04/24 / 2024-04-27 16:27:18 / April 27, 2024 @ 4:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:27:18 / 4:27 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000mw52. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mw52. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.642 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 9.642 km, 108.1257° East, 14.7501° North.

Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Pleiku (c. 114 200 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Kon Tum (c. 47 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Quảng Ngãi (c. 33 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pleiku, Quảng Ngãi, Kon Tum. Close country/countries, Vietnam (c. 89 571 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 45 km NNE of Kon Tum, Vietnam. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 108.1257° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7501° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.642 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45 km NNE 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 2024-04-27 16:27:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-23 14:18:04 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 246 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.136 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us6000mw52 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mw52 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mw52, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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