Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Shihezi in China

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Shihezi in China on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nsns. Id of event: us7000nsns. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/11/24 / 2024-11-01 17:05:12 / November 1, 2024 @ 5:05 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.715 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:05:12 / 5:05 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 11.715 km, 86.3047° East, 43.8401° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yan’an Beilu, Shihezi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Shihezi (c. 572 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Yan’an Beilu (c. 198 800 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 55 km SSE of Shihezi, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	86.3047° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.8401° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.715 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55 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	2024-11-01 17:05:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-23 15:38:05	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	326	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.091	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us7000nsns	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nsns	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nsns,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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