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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Kashgar in China


Earthquake location 39.7526S, 77.1364WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 103 km ENE of Kashgar, China (64 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 12:32:24 / December 17, 2024 @ 12:32 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 12:32:24 / 12:32 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nziv. Unique identifier: us7000nziv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 77.1364 East, latitude 39.7526 North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 103 km ENE of Kashgar, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 77.1364° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7526° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103 km ENE 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 2024-12-17 12:32:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-17 14:43:00 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.737 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 us7000nziv Id of event.
Event Code 7000nziv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nziv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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