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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Yilkiqi in China


Earthquake location 37.4582S, 78.3278WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Yilkiqi in China. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:32:49 / 10:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 78.3278 East, latitude 37.4582 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 02:32:49 / July 3, 2015 @ 2:32 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002yyi. Id of event: us20002yyi.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zangguy (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Zangguy (c. 13 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 110 km ESE of Yilkiqi, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.3278° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4582° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km 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 02:32:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-24 23:34:11 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 271 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 4.284 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 us20002yyi Id of event.
Event Code 20002yyi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002yyi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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