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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Jiangyou in China


Earthquake location 32.01S, 104.51WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Jiangyou in China. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/12/15 / 2015-12-10 21:27:45 / December 10, 2015 @ 9:27 pm. Unique identifier: us20004h3m. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004h3m. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 104.51° East, latitude 32.01° North, depth = 16 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:27:45 / 5:27 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (41 miles) from Mianyang (c. 264 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Jiangyou (c. 127 200 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mianyang, Jiangyou (min 5000 pop).

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 six 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.

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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: 33 km NW of Jiangyou, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.51° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.01° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km NW of Jiangyou, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-10 21:27:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-03 00:23:26 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 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 us20004h3m Id of event.
Event Code 20004h3m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004h3m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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