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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Aksu in China


Earthquake location 40.9744S, 78.7329WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 129 km W of Aksu, China (80 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000hgfr. Event ids that are associated: us1000hgfr. Exact location, longitude 78.7329° East, latitude 40.9744° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:58:32 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/10/18 / 2018-10-24 09:58:32 / October 24, 2018 @ 9:58 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 129 km W of Aksu, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.7329° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.9744° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 129km W of Aksu, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-24 09:58:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-24 10:23:16 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 246 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 1.028 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us1000hgfr Id of event.
Event Code 1000hgfr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hgfr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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