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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 63 km S of Domartang, China


Earthquake location 30.3299S, 94.8837WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 63 km S of Domartang, China (39 miles) on Wednesday. Event id: us10003181. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003181. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/08/15 / 2015-08-11 19:13:11 / August 11, 2015 @ 7:13 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 94.8837° East, 30.3299° North, depth 20.08 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.08 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:13:11 / 3:13 am (local time epicenter).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 63 km S of Domartang, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.8837° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.3299° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km S of Domartang, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-11 19:13:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-11 20:46:22 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 369 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 3.317 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us10003181 Id of event.
Event Code 10003181 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003181, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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