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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near western Xizang


Earthquake location 33.5041S, 81.7676WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, western Xizang (0 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:40:02 / 5:40 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 18/04/24 / 2024-04-18 17:40:02 / April 18, 2024 @ 5:40 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 81.7676° East, 33.5041° North, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: us7000mczb. Event ids that are associated: us7000mczb. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate 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: western Xizang.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 81.7676° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.5041° 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 2024-04-18 17:40:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-29 16:58:40 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 102 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.439 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us7000mczb Id of event.
Event Code 7000mczb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mczb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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