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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 33 km SSW of Liupanshui, China


Earthquake location 26.3038S, 104.742WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Liupanshui in China. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:55:03 / 11:55 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nf1m. Id of event: us6000nf1m. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/07/24 / 2024-07-23 23:55:03 / July 23, 2024 @ 11:55 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 104.742° East, 26.3038° North, depth 10 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Liupanshui (c. 251 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Weining (c. 56 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Weining, Liupanshui.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 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: 33 km SSW of Liupanshui, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.742° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.3038° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km SSW of Liupanshui, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-23 23:55:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-24 00:10:39 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 416 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 83 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.668 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us6000nf1m Id of event.
Event Code 6000nf1m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nf1m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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