Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Tanggulashan in China

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 298 km WNW of Tanggulashan, China (185 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 89.2272° East, 34.7456° North, depth 11.97 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/02/16 / 2016-02-02 13:20:36 / February 2, 2016 @ 1:20 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.97 km (7 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:20:36 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20004y3z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004y3z. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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. 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 has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 298 km WNW of Tanggulashan, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	89.2272° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.7456° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.97 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	298km WNW of Tanggulashan, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-02 13:20:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-24 19:26:05	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	312	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	13.126	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	155	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	us20004y3z	Id of event.
Event Code	20004y3z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004y3z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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