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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Tanggulashan in China


Earthquake location 34.711S, 91.4559WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 104 km NW of Tanggulashan, China (65 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 11:47:42 / 11:47 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.29 km (16 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20002lxe. Unique identifier: us20002lxe. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/06/15 / 2015-06-04 03:47:42 / June 4, 2015 @ 3:47 am. Exact location, longitude 91.4559° East, latitude 34.711° North, depth = 25.29 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 104 km NW of Tanggulashan, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 91.4559° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.711° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104km NW of Tanggulashan, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-04 03:47:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-30 05:26:06 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 246 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 5.001 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us20002lxe Id of event.
Event Code 20002lxe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002lxe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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