Strong earthquake, 6.4 mag strikes near Hotan in China

A earthquake with magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 279 km SE of Hotan, China (173 miles). Unique identifier: us7000abmk. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000abmk. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 82.4524° East, 35.6283° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 21:05:18 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/06/20 / 2020-06-25 21:05:18 / June 25, 2020 @ 9:05 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 279 km SE of Hotan, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	82.4524° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6283° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	279 km SE of Hotan, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-25 21:05:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-25 21:22:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	6	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	yellow	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	650	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	7.092	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	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	us7000abmk	Id of event.
Event Code	7000abmk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000abmk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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