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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Jiangyou in China


Earthquake location 31.9295S, 104.2181WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Jiangyou in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.96 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 104.2181 East, latitude 31.9295 North, depth = 16.96 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:03:39 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000cb4i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000cb4i. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/10/20 / 2020-10-22 03:03:39 / October 22, 2020 @ 3:03 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Mianyang (c. 264 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Deyang (c. 152 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Jiangyou (c. 127 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Deyang, Mianyang, Jiangyou (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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 50 km WNW of Jiangyou, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.2181° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9295° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 km WNW of Jiangyou, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-22 03:03:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-22 03:14:28 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 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 11.379 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us6000cb4i Id of event.
Event Code 6000cb4i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cb4i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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