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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Xiaozhongdian in China


Earthquake location 27.55S, 100.3WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Xiaozhongdian in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us200040av. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200040av. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:12:09 / 4:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 100.3 East, latitude 27.55 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/10/15 / 2015-10-28 20:12:09 / October 28, 2015 @ 8:12 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lijiang, Shangri-La. Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Lijiang (c. 1 137 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Shangri-La (c. 130 000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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 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: 41 km E of Xiaozhongdian, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.3° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.55° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km E of Xiaozhongdian, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-28 20:12:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-25 01:02:57 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us200040av Id of event.
Event Code 200040av An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200040av, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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