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Light earthquake 4 mag, 115 km W of Layka, China


Earthquake location 36.9946S, 78.4349WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 115 kilometers (71 miles) from Layka in China. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002ywx. Id of event: us20002ywx. Global time and date of event 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 04:43:48 / July 3, 2015 @ 4:43 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 78.4349 East, latitude 36.9946 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 12:43:48 / 12:43 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly 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).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Zangguy (c. 13 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zangguy (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 115 km W of Layka, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.4349° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115km W of Layka, 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 04:43:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-25 23:39:24 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 4.753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 us20002ywx Id of event.
Event Code 20002ywx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002ywx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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