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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 17 km E of Long’an, China

Posted by admin on April 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.4156S, 104.7126WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Long’an in China. Exact location of event, depth 30.36 km, 104.7126° East, 32.4156° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008ilw. Unique identifier: us10008ilw. The epicenter was at a depth of 30.36 km (19 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:25:09 / 2:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/04/17 / 2017-04-10 18:25:09 / April 10, 2017 @ 6:25 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Jiangyou (c. 127 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jiangyou (min 5000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km E of Long’an, China.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.7126° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.4156° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km E of Long'an, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-10 18:25:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-24 23:19:18 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 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 4.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 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 us10008ilw Id of event.
Event Code 10008ilw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008ilw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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