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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Changning in China


Earthquake location 28.5132S, 104.8625WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Changning in China. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700049qz. Id of event: us700049qz. Exact location of event, longitude 104.8625 East, latitude 28.5132 North, depth = 10 km. 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). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 02:17:58 / July 4, 2019 @ 2:17 am. The temblor was reported at 10:17:58 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zigong, Yibin, Xunchang (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Zigong (c. 690 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Xunchang (c. 64 600 pop).

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

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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: 9 km SW of Changning, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.8625° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.5132° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SW of Changning, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-04 02:17:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 02:36:26 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 416 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 7.209 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700049qz Id of event.
Event Code 700049qz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700049qz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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