Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 294 km NE of Luring, China

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 294 km NE of Luring, China (183 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 17:25:07 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 86.1854 East, latitude 34.3357 North, depth = 32.07 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006j0u. Unique identifier: us10006j0u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.07 km (20 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/08/16 / 2016-08-31 09:25:07 / August 31, 2016 @ 9:25 am.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 seven and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 294 km NE of Luring, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	86.1854° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.3357° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	294km NE of Luring, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-31 09:25:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-31 10:02:50	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	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	6.239	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	81	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	us10006j0u	Id of event.
Event Code	10006j0u	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006j0u,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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