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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Yongning in China


Earthquake location 28.2014S, 100.6499WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Yongning in China on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/05/24 / 2024-05-27 03:07:11 / May 27, 2024 @ 3:07 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.6499 East, latitude 28.2014 North, depth = 10 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:07:11 / 3:07 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000n177. Unique identifier: us6000n177. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shangri-La. Epicenter of the event was 102 km (63 miles) from Shangri-La (c. 130 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 40 km N of Yongning, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.6499° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.2014° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40 km N of Yongning, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-27 03:07:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-27 03:26:38 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 400 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 8.151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us6000n177 Id of event.
Event Code 6000n177 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n177, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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