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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Songnim in North Korea

Posted by admin on June 27, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8556S, 125.6715WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Songnim in North Korea. The temblor was picked up at 15:19:51 / 3:19 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/06/19 / 2019-06-27 06:19:51 / June 27, 2019 @ 6:19 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 125.6715° East, 38.8556° North, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: us700045sm. Event ids that are associated: us700045sm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Koksan, Anju, Changyŏn. The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Pyongyang (c. 3 222 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Namp’o (c. 455 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Sariwŏn (c. 310 100 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Songnim (c. 152 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from P’yŏngsŏng (c. 100 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Chaeryŏng-ŭp (c. 53 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, North Korea (c. 22 912 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km NNE of Songnim, North Korea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.6715° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8556° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NNE of Songnim, North Korea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-27 06:19:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-27 08:36:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 222 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 1.567 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700045sm Id of event.
Event Code 700045sm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700045sm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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