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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake strikes near Changling in China


Earthquake location 44.6085S, 124.0909WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (mg/mb) has striked on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Changling in China. The temblor was reported at 06:28:48 / 6:28 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 14.76 km (9 miles). Global time of event 16/02/15 / 2015-02-16 22:28:48 / February 16, 2015 @ 10:28 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 124.0909 East, latitude 44.6085 North, depth 14.76 km, unique identifier, usc000trv0.

Close countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Fuyu (c. 138 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Qianguo (c. 113 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Kaitong (c. 62 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Changling (c. 55 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fuyu, Qianguo, Kaitong.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.0909° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.6085° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km N of Changling, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-16 22:28:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-27 00:44:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 3.929 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 usc000trv0 Id of event.
Event Code c000trv0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usc000trv0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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