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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Xegar in China


Earthquake location 28.2457S, 87.2227WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Xegar in China. Global time and date of event 22/05/16 / 2016-05-22 01:46:09 / May 22, 2016 @ 1:46 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.37 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 87.2227° East, latitude 28.2457° North, depth = 10.37 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:46:09 / 9:46 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20005yj5. Event ids that are associated: us20005yj5.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lobujya. The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Lobujya (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 45 km SSE of Xegar, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 87.2227° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.2457° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SSE of Xegar, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-22 01:46:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-16 22:43:46 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 246 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 1.768 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 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 us20005yj5 Id of event.
Event Code 20005yj5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005yj5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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