9/5/2022 Western Sichuan, China

Earthquake Details Seismogram Explanation
Location: Western Sichuan, China Pdiff-wave: not verified
Date: September 5, 2022 Sdiff-wave: not verified
Time: 04:52:19 UTC; 11:52:19 pm CDT (local 9/4/22) The vertical axis is in units of displacement in centimeters.
Latitude: 29.73 N The horizontal axis is in units of time in seconds.
Longitude: 102.28 E The beginning of the file is the origin of the event.
Magnitude: 6.6 Mw This event triggered landslides that resulted in ~75 people being killed.
Depth: 15.5 km
Distance:   106.60 degrees (~7,216 miles from Milwaukee)

 

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