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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 7 km SSE of Jinghong, China


Earthquake location 21.9349S, 100.7729WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Jinghong in China on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 100.7729° East, 21.9349° North. The temblor was picked up at 21:20:31 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/05/18 / 2018-05-21 13:20:31 / May 21, 2018 @ 1:20 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000e9j2. Event ids that are associated: us1000e9j2.

Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jinghong (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 7 km (5 miles) from Jinghong (c. 62 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SSE of Jinghong, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.7729° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.9349° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SSE of Jinghong, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-21 13:20:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-21 21:30:53 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 234 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 1.276 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us1000e9j2 Id of event.
Event Code 1000e9j2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e9j2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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