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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Shengrenjian in China


Earthquake location 34.9572S, 111.2483WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Shengrenjian in China. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/03/16 / 2016-03-12 03:14:11 / March 12, 2016 @ 3:14 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 111.2483 East, latitude 34.9572 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:14:11 / 11:14 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10004wxy. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004wxy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hancheng, Yima, Changzhi (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Changzhi (c. 699 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Yuncheng (c. 202 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Yima (c. 82 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Hancheng (c. 58 000 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 13 km NNE of Shengrenjian, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 111.2483° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.9572° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NNE of Shengrenjian, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-12 03:14:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-12 03:34:11 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 354 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 13.272 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us10004wxy Id of event.
Event Code 10004wxy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004wxy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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