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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Shimen in China

Posted by admin on March 27, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 25.9014S, 99.71WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Shimen in China. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.79 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008uw7. Id of event: us20008uw7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/03/17 / 2017-03-26 23:55:06 / March 26, 2017 @ 11:55 pm. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:55:06 / 7:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 99.71 East, latitude 25.9014 North, depth = 28.79 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Dali (c. 134 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dali (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 28 km E of Shimen, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.71° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.9014° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km E of Shimen, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-26 23:55:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-27 00:13:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 385 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 4.595 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 us20008uw7 Id of event.
Event Code 20008uw7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008uw7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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