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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Shihezi in China


Earthquake location 43.759S, 86.3093WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Shihezi in China. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/08/24 / 2024-08-08 20:06:12 / August 8, 2024 @ 8:06 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 20:06:12 / 8:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 86.3093° East, 43.759° North. Event id: us6000niyn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000niyn. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Shihezi (c. 572 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Yan’an Beilu (c. 198 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yan’an Beilu, Shihezi (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 64 km SSE of Shihezi, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 86.3093° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.759° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 km SSE of Shihezi, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-08 20:06:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-09 14:57:12 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 298 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.154 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us6000niyn Id of event.
Event Code 6000niyn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000niyn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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