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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Hongtu in China


Earthquake location 38.0048S, 100.3294WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Hongtu in China. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.74 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 22/11/15 / 2015-11-22 21:02:43 / November 22, 2015 @ 9:02 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us100040dw. Event ids that are associated: us100040dw. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:02:43 / 5:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 100.3294° East, latitude 38.0048° North, depth = 13.74 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zhangye (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 104 km (65 miles) from Zhangye (c. 96 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 53 km W of Hongtu, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.3294° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0048° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km W of Hongtu, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-22 21:02:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-22 22:03:43 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 10.779 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us100040dw Id of event.
Event Code 100040dw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040dw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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