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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 91 km NNE of Kashgar, China


Earthquake location 40.1683S, 76.5619WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Kashgar in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000nf3p. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nf3p. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/24 / 2024-07-24 03:31:24 / July 24, 2024 @ 3:31 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:31:24 / 3:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 76.5619° East, 40.1683° North, depth 40.901 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.901 km (25 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kashi. Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Kashi (c. 274 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 91 km NNE of Kashgar, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 76.5619° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1683° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.901 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 km NNE 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 2024-07-24 03:31:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-25 04:20:25 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 284 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nf3p Id of event.
Event Code 6000nf3p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nf3p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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