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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Korla in China


Earthquake location 42.1572S, 85.7968WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Korla in China. Exact location, longitude 85.7968° East, latitude 42.1572° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 03:39:03 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/01/21 / 2021-01-08 03:39:03 / January 8, 2021 @ 3:39 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000d6mj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d6mj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sishilichengzi, Sayibage (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Sayibage (c. 179 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Sishilichengzi (c. 8 700 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 53 km NW of Korla, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 85.7968° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.1572° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km NW of Korla, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-08 03:39:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-08 04:16:52 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 298 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 4.793 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us6000d6mj Id of event.
Event Code 6000d6mj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d6mj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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