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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Arzak in China


Earthquake location 39.3984S, 76.7587WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Arzak in China. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000h7ci. Unique identifier: us2000h7ci. The temblor was picked up at 05:52:57 / 5:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 76.7587 East, latitude 39.3984 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/09/18 / 2018-09-03 21:52:57 / September 3, 2018 @ 9:52 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Kashi (c. 274 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kashi.

Every 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. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 62 km ESE of Arzak, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 76.7587° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3984° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km ESE of Arzak, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-03 21:52:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-03 22:47:48 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 2.109 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us2000h7ci Id of event.
Event Code 2000h7ci An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h7ci, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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