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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 144 km N of Qumong, China


Earthquake location 34.274S, 98.2153WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 144 km N of Qumong, China (89 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.92 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/10/15 / 2015-10-12 10:04:16 / October 12, 2015 @ 10:04 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003myf. Unique identifier: us10003myf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 98.2153 East, latitude 34.274 North, depth = 12.92 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:04:16 / 6:04 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 144 km N of Qumong, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 98.2153° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.274° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 144km N of Qumong, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-12 10:04:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-12 10:31:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 400 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 10.279 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us10003myf Id of event.
Event Code 10003myf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003myf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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