Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Kashi in China

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 129 km SSW of Kashi, China (80 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 130.43 km (81 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:22:24 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/06/16 / 2016-06-22 13:22:24 / June 22, 2016 @ 1:22 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000660g. Event ids that are associated: us2000660g. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 75.5163 East, latitude 38.3415 North, depth = 130.43 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 129 km SSW of Kashi, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	75.5163° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.3415° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	130.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	129km SSW of Kashi, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-22 13:22:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-14 13:05:05	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	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	3.112	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	200	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	us2000660g	Id of event.
Event Code	2000660g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000660g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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