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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Xinyuan in China


Earthquake location 42.5892S, 83.0546WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Xinyuan in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/12/20 / 2020-12-11 13:05:12 / December 11, 2020 @ 1:05 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000crke. Unique identifier: us7000crke. The temblor was picked up at 13:05:12 / 1:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.39 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 35.39 km, 83.0546° East, 42.5892° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kuche. Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Kuche (c. 68 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 94 km S of Xinyuan, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 83.0546° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5892° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94 km S of Xinyuan, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-11 13:05:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-03 12:29:29 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 326 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 2.722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us7000crke Id of event.
Event Code 7000crke An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000crke, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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