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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 79 km ESE of Yilkiqi, China

Posted by admin on July 23, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.5644S, 77.9969WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Yilkiqi in China. Event id: us10002n53. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002n53. Exact location of earthquake, 77.9969° East, 37.5644° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 09:17:48 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 01:17:48 / July 3, 2015 @ 1:17 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Zangguy (c. 13 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zangguy.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 79 km ESE of Yilkiqi, China.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 77.9969° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5644° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km ESE of Yilkiqi, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-03 01:17:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-23 04:23:53 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 354 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 4.162 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us10002n53 Id of event.
Event Code 10002n53 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002n53, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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