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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 8 km SW of Yuhu, China


Earthquake location 26.054S, 99.9187WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Yuhu in China. Event id: us10006cxe. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006cxe. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:30:40 / 6:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/08/16 / 2016-08-08 22:30:40 / August 8, 2016 @ 10:30 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 99.9187° East, 26.054° North, depth 43.43 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Dali (c. 134 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dali. Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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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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 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: 8 km SW of Yuhu, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.9187° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.054° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SW of Yuhu, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-08 22:30:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-23 03:14:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 271 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 4.756 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us10006cxe Id of event.
Event Code 10006cxe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006cxe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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