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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Phongsali in Laos


Earthquake location 21.9011S, 102.2824WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Phongsali in Laos on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 06:00:59 / 6:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/04/16 / 2016-04-22 23:00:59 / April 22, 2016 @ 11:00 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 102.2824° East, 21.9011° North. Unique identifier: us20005l2s. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005l2s.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dien Bien Phu, Phôngsali (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Dien Bien Phu (c. 40 300 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Phôngsali (c. 13 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Laos (c. 6 368 000 pop), Vietnam (c. 89 571 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km NE of Phongsali, Laos. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.2824° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.9011° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km NE of Phongsali, Laos Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-22 23:00:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-22 23:26:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 312 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 4.386 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us20005l2s Id of event.
Event Code 20005l2s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005l2s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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