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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Xichang in China


Earthquake location 27.8509S, 102.2742WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Xichang in China on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25.35 km (16 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 102.2742 East, latitude 27.8509 North, depth = 25.35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/10/18 / 2018-10-31 08:29:59 / October 31, 2018 @ 8:29 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 16:29:59 / 4:29 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000i4he. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000i4he.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Xichang. Epicenter of the earthquake was 5 km (3 miles) from Xichang (c. 126 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 5 km SSE of Xichang, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.2742° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.8509° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE of Xichang, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-31 08:29:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-31 08:46:31 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 6.664 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 us2000i4he Id of event.
Event Code 2000i4he An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i4he, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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