Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 123 km WSW of Rikaze, China

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 123 km WSW of Rikaze, China (76 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:11:22 / 9:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 87.6347° East, 29.0353° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pyq7. Unique identifier: us7000pyq7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/25 / 2025-05-11 21:11:22 / May 11, 2025 @ 9:11 pm.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 123 km WSW of Rikaze, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	87.6347° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.0353° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	123 km WSW of Rikaze, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-11 21:11:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-11 21:30:22	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	6.437	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	482	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	129	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.412	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pyq7	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pyq7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pyq7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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