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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near western Xizang


Earthquake location 33.2384S, 86.7897WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes western Xizang (0 miles) on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 86.7897 East, latitude 33.2384 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/07/20 / 2020-07-24 03:39:41 / July 24, 2020 @ 3:39 am. Event id: us6000b35t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b35t. The temblor was picked up at 03:39:41 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: western Xizang.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 86.7897° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.2384° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place western Xizang Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-24 03:39:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-24 03:59:02 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 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 312 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 5.262 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us6000b35t Id of event.
Event Code 6000b35t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b35t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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