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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Banqiao in China


Earthquake location 32.5201S, 105.3848WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Banqiao in China on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 22/09/15 / 2015-09-22 18:01:37 / September 22, 2015 @ 6:01 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20003n1p. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003n1p. Exact location of event, longitude 105.3848 East, latitude 32.5201 North, depth = 13.96 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.96 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 02:01:37 / 2:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Guangyuan (c. 213 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guangyuan (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 11 km SSE of Banqiao, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 105.3848° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.5201° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSE of Banqiao, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-22 18:01:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-22 20:50:03 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 340 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 4.165 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us20003n1p Id of event.
Event Code 20003n1p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003n1p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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