Magnitude 6.3 - NORTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA

This just in:

Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 6.3
Date-Time Friday, June 29, 2012 at 21:07:32 UTC
Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 05:07:32 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 43.444°N, 84.725°E
Depth 9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Region NORTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA
Distances 99 km (61 miles) S of Dushanzi, China
141 km (87 miles) SW of Shihezi, China
218 km (135 miles) WSW of Changji, China
219 km (136 miles) NNW of Korla, China

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 13 km (8.1 miles); depth +/- 2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Parameters NST=387, Nph=394, Dmin=416.3 km, Rmss=0.91 sec, Gp= 22°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9
Source Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID

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Lots of activity lately and this one was kind of shallow so there might be some significant damage.

I will update if they revise the readings.

Hopefully this wasn't a preshock and since this seems to be a fairly populated area I hope that everyone is alright.

With all the terrible engineered infastructure (i.e Dams, and Large structures of sort) that there have been reports on in China I cringe everytime I hear about large earthquakes there. Fingers crossed the damage is minimal.

SaneThinking