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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Neijiang in China


Earthquake location 29.5729S, 105.0642WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Neijiang in China on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 105.0642 East, latitude 29.5729 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 06:42:14 / 6:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/09/19 / 2019-09-07 22:42:14 / September 7, 2019 @ 10:42 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70005dar. Event ids that are associated: us70005dar. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Zigong (c. 690 000 pop), 1 km (1 miles) from Neijiang (c. 546 900 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Yongchuan (c. 94 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Yanjiang (c. 87 400 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Luocheng (c. 73 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Chonglong (c. 58 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luocheng, Yibin, Yongchuan (min 5000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

Questions or comments?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km S of Neijiang, 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 105.0642° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.5729° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km S of Neijiang, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-07 22:42:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-07 23:00:47 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 8.279 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 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 us70005dar Id of event.
Event Code 70005dar An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005dar, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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