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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Yining Xian in China


Earthquake location 44.1975S, 82.5766WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 112 km ENE of Yining Xian, China (70 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/10/18 / 2018-10-22 21:37:26 / October 22, 2018 @ 9:37 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hful. Id of event: us1000hful. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 82.5766 East, latitude 44.1975 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 05:37:26 / 5:37 am (local time epicenter).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 112 km ENE of Yining Xian, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 82.5766° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.1975° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km ENE of Yining Xian, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-22 21:37:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-22 21:53:48 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 400 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 2.604 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us1000hful Id of event.
Event Code 1000hful An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hful, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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