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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Jinghong in China

Posted by admin on May 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 22.2389S, 100.9995WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Jinghong in China on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 00:58:31 / 12:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 100.9995 East, latitude 22.2389 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/05/18 / 2018-05-22 16:58:31 / May 22, 2018 @ 4:58 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ea7f. Id of event: us1000ea7f.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Jinghong (c. 62 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jinghong (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 38 km NE of Jinghong, China.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.9995° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.2389° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NE 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 2018-05-22 16:58:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-22 21:41:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 178 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 1.617 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000ea7f Id of event.
Event Code 1000ea7f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ea7f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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